By David Steinberg / For the Journal
Rachel Kolb of Albuquerque, author of the new book “Articulate: A Deaf Memoir of Voice,” was born profoundly deaf in 1990.
According to her family’s lore, when she was 2 years old, Kolb’s speech therapist gave her mother an update on a particular day’s therapy session, adding this advice: “I want to tell you something. Never put limitations on this child. She can do anything she wants to.”
Her mother recalls continuing to chat with the therapist. That led to talking about how, down the road, Rachel might attend the best school in the city and then go on to college.
The point the therapist made was to recognize that Rachel had the potential to achieve.
“The most important thing my parents could do was let me find the way,” she writes.
