"If you can dare to dream it, you can do it" - Dr. 雪莉安妮 Lints ’95
“我面临着挑战,而尤蒂卡直面了这些挑战."
They say if you can dream it you can do it, if you put in the work you will achieve your goals, if you put your mind to it you can do anything, 真的没有比Dr. 雪莉安妮 Lints. Dr. Lints, better known by her stage name of 雪莉安妮, 天生就有双侧听力和语言障碍, 然而,她的歌唱事业却非常成功, 登上公告牌排行榜榜首,并在国内一些最著名的舞台上演唱.
“在我五岁的时候,学校护士发现我的两只耳朵都有严重的听力损失,”她说。. 这时, 我的语言障碍已经出现,因此, resulted in a late start in life. 他们给了我一个助听器,并建议我和其他像我一样的学生一起去学校. So, 我被公共汽车送到一所聋哑和重听儿童学校, 在那里我接触到那些不会说话的人,并立即学习基本的手语. Right away, I knew I was different and began to cry. 我告诉妈妈我不想进特殊学校, but that I wanted to be like everyone else. This started the process of my mainstream education.”
With the help of now two hearing aids, seven years of speech therapy, 注意接受者, 导师, and understanding teachers, 她后来成为了小学里最优秀的学生之一, her high school, and won scholarships to then-Utica College, 她于1995年毕业,获得生物学学士学位,辅修心理学. 在校期间,她是阿萨·格雷生物学会的成员, 去巴尔的摩科学中心和好时公园实地考察, 等, helped further her passion for the sciences. 在利记sbo的教授和顾问的指导下,最著名的是. Lawrence Aaronson and Professor Melodee Moltman, 雪莉·安妮准备继续学习脊椎指压疗法. 她继续在纽约脊椎医学学院学习,并在那里获得了博士学位, 甚至回到尤蒂卡发表2010年毕业典礼演讲.
“在尤蒂卡,我是一个名字,而不仅仅是一个数字,”她说. “在这里,我不仅与同事建立了终身的友谊, 但也, faculty members. 你有机会在尤蒂卡获得的个人指导和指导是令人震惊的,值得称赞. 这些人际关系对我来说尤为重要. 我面临着挑战,而尤蒂卡直面了这些挑战. 正是在这里,我被鼓励去超越期望."
After 21 years in the chiropractic profession, 雪莉·安妮于2019年退休,全职从事音乐事业.
雪莉安妮 has been singing, or as she refers to her early years, “尖叫,” since she was five years old. 她来自一个有音乐天赋的家庭,所以对艺术的渴望和追求几乎是与生俱来的. 当雪莉在追求她的音乐激情时,听力障碍给她带来了一些挑战, 但她对音乐的热爱意味着她不会让任何事情阻碍她.
She says her biggest challenge was learning pitches, but with the help of vocal teacher Holly Weiss, 两人不知疲倦地工作了多年,以发展和完善雪莉·安妮的投球. 她的 perseverance has paid off, 赢得了比尔·盖瑟的高度赞扬,他被称为ASCAP的世纪基督教歌曲作者. “任何音乐领域的人都知道这一点:要唱歌,你必须能够听到. And how this young girl does this, I do not know. She has a terrific voice," Gaither says.
While she admits there were certainly some setbacks, 雪莉·安妮向那些唱反调的人证明,在歌唱事业中,听力障碍并不意味着不可能.
And what a career it’s been. 她的 雪莉安妮 LIVE! 2018年,《利记sbo》首次登上美国公告牌音乐视频排行榜第五名, 她的歌曲赢得了无数的奖项和荣誉, 甚至还出演过各种电视和电影作品. 她的才华为该国一些最大的舞台增光添彩, including the Landmark Theatre, Kleinhans Music Hall and Chapel at Crosspoint, the National Quartet Convention Main Stage, 和说多莉, 举几个例子. 除了, she has spoken at numerous conferences, 向数百万人分享她的故事和其他鼓舞人心的信息. 她把自己在各种情况下与人打交道的能力归功于她在利记sbo辅修的心理学, 这显然在她的脊椎治疗和音乐生涯中起到了很好的作用.
雪莉安妮’s story is an inspiration to so many, 向任何人证明,如果你非常想要某样东西,你所要做的就是投入工作, silence the doubts of those around you, and go out there and chase your dreams.
“如果你敢于梦想,你就能做到,”她说. “But you must set goals.”
- written by Victoria DeLuca
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