Orson Grimer was born prematurely and diagnosed with hearing loss in both ears at his newborn hearing screening.
He attended AVUK’s specialist family-centred auditory verbal therapy programme for two years before graduating with language skills ahead of his hearing peers.
This week, he visited parliament with his family and representatives from charity Auditory Verbal UK (AVUK) to speak to more than 20 cross-party MPs, including Caroline Noaks, Conservative MP for Romsey and Southampton North, and Rosie Duffield, Labour MP for Canterbury, who sponsored the event, as well as Angela Rayner, deputy leader of the Labour Party and chair of All Party Parliamentary Group on Deafness, Lilian Greenwood.
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