The hearing-impaired guy from Wuhan was admitted to Peking University [wearing hearing aids to participate in the college entrance examination with full marks in English listening]
□ Changjiang Daily reporter Ma Huijie
"I hope that students with hearing disabilities or other disabilities will not be discouraged and work towards their goals." On July 27, he suffered from otitis media when he was 3 years old. He was found to have binaural deafness, and a high school student with moderate to severe hearing loss. Ouyang Zhuo of Shouyi Road, Wuchang received an admission letter from Peking University.
■ Hearing impaired college entrance examination English listening full score
Ouyang Zhuo did not go to kindergarten due to hearing loss. His grandmother was his mathematics teacher. When he was about 5 years old, his grandmother taught Ouyang Zhuo two-digit addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Little Ouyang could calculate the rules of multiplication and division by himself, and solve the third and fourth digits. Multiplication and division calculation questions, my mother said that the bigger the number, the more excited he was to count, and he liked mathematics since then.
"What I am most happy about is solving problems by myself." Ouyang Zhuo told reporters: "I am very lucky, everything has good results." The sixth grade of primary school completed the mathematics of junior high school by self-study, and the junior high school also studied mathematics, physics, biology, etc. . He worked hard to break through the chemical national league, and was admitted to the First Affiliated High School of China Normal University in the senior high school entrance examination.
Ouyang Zhuo participated in the national high school mathematics, physics, and biology leagues and won the second prize in Hubei Province. He also took advantage of the winter and summer vacations to participate in the comprehensive camp of Peking University, which made him yearn for Peking University and clarified his goals.
Due to hearing impairment, it was very difficult to learn English at the beginning.
In order to learn pronunciation, he would repeatedly watch the teacher's mouth shape and follow the pronunciation to the video to find out the pronunciation pattern. After memorizing a word, he would read the phonetic symbol first and then the Chinese meaning.
"When I was a child, my mother would teach me to practice Chinese pronunciation according to the mouth shape. In daily life, talking with others and reading the mouth shape is also an aid. These are very helpful for me to learn English pronunciation by reading the mouth shape." Ouyang Zhuo said.
In those few years, he would use it when eating and washing his feet. He listened to English texts repeatedly with the help of hearing aids. It was because of years of accumulation that he scored 134 in English in the college entrance examination and a perfect score in listening.
■ Wearing hearing aids is no different than wearing glasses
"If the heart has a voice, there will be no obstacles in the mountains."
Although Ouyang Zhuo is hearing impaired, he has a firm heart and an optimistic attitude. When communicating with reporters, the most common sentence he says is "I am lucky."
"Wearing a hearing aid is the same as someone else wearing glasses." Ouyang Zhuo told reporters that when he was in junior high school, he was more introverted, because he couldn't hear other people's voices clearly and communicated very little with his classmates.
"At that time, I was thinking that this is the challenge that life has given me, why can't I overcome it?" After entering high school, Ouyang Zhuo took the initiative to request to live in the school, exercise his independent living ability, and overcome the communication barriers caused by poor hearing. .
He actively participated in social practice activities such as the Model United Nations Club of the First Affiliated High School of China Normal University, and participated in the school's sunshine charity sale. He also actively participated in the work of the student union and enthusiastically served the students.
"Exercise can relieve my study pressure and think about the confusion in my heart."
According to the policy, students with hearing disabilities in Level 3 can be exempted from the English listening test, and the score will be calculated according to the proportion of the written test score, which will affect the total score.
Xiao Ouyang insisted on taking the exam by himself. The goal was the new engineering department of Peking University, and he could not miss a single point. "I have studied hard for many years, and I am very confident in myself." Ouyang Zhuo said confidently.
When Ouyang Zhuo was diagnosed with moderate-to-severe neurological deafness, his mother wrote to him: "Zuo, do you know? You are a little angel, you have two small ears, this is the sign of a little angel, you must protect it well. They, use them to listen to the call of relatives, listen to the talk of friends, listen to the voice of nature, your life will be full of sunshine!"
Birth, elementary school, junior high school, high school... In addition to caring for company, family members often communicate with Ouyang Zhuo by writing letters.
"This child is the first disabled student in our community to be admitted to Peking University, and it is our pride." Xiao Zhang, the disabled assistant of the 701 community in Shouyi Road, Wuchang District, told reporters that the community has been paying attention to all disabled friends and vulnerable groups in the jurisdiction. Since Xiao Ouyang applied for the disability certificate in 2016, she has often contacted the child's mother to help him apply for hearing aid subsidies, apply for hearing subsidies for the disabled, and issue travel discount cards.