“如果你敢于梦想,你就能做到。. 雪莉·安妮·林特斯, 95年
"I had challenges – and Utica met those challenges head-on."
他们说,如果你能梦想,你就能做到, 如果你努力工作,你就会实现你的目标, 如果你下定决心,你可以做任何事情, and there truly is no better representative who embodies these sayings better than Dr. 雪莉·安妮·林特斯. Dr. Lints,她的艺名是 雪莉安妮, was born with a bilateral hearing and speech impairment, yet has gone on to have a very successful singing career, topping Billboard charts and singing on some of the most prominent stages in the country.
“I was five years old before the school nurse detected that I had significant hearing loss in both of my ears,”她说。. 这时, my speech impairment was already set in and consequently, 导致了晚婚. I was given one hearing aid and it was recommended that I attend a school with other students like me. So, I was bused to a school for deaf and hard of hearing children, where I was exposed to those who did not speak and was immediately taught basic sign language. 我立刻意识到自己与众不同,于是哭了起来. I told my mother that I did not want to be in a special school, 但我想和其他人一样. 这开启了我接受主流教育的过程.”
在两个助听器的帮助下, 七年的语言治疗, 注意接受者, 导师, 理解老师, she went on to become one of the top students in her elementary school, 她的高中, 并获得了当时尤蒂卡学院的奖学金, where she graduated in 1995 with a bachelor’s degree in Biology and a minor in Psychology. During her time on campus she was a member of the Asa Gray Biological Society, where field trips to the Baltimore Science Center and 她的。shey Park, 等, 这进一步激发了她对科学的热情. Guided by her professors and advisors at Utica, most notably Dr. Lawrence Aaronson和Melodee Moltman教授, 雪莉安妮 prepared herself to further her education in the study of Chiropractics. She went on to study at the New York Chiropractic College where she earned her doctorate, even returning to Utica to deliver the 2010 Convocation address.
“It was at Utica that I was a name and not just a number,”她说。. “It was here that I formed some lifelong friendships with not only colleagues, 但也, 教员. The personal tutelage and instruction that you have the opportunity to receive at Utica is astounding and is to be commended. These personal relationships are particularly important to me. I had challenges – and Utica met those challenges head-on. It was here that I was encouraged to exceed expectations."
做了21年脊椎按摩师, 雪莉安妮 retired from the practice in 2019 to pursue her music career full-time.
雪莉·安妮一直在唱歌, 或者像她早年所说的那样, “尖叫,从她五岁开始. She comes from a musically talented family so a desire and pursuit of the arts was almost intrinsic. Being hearing impaired posed some challenges while Sherry was in pursuit of her musical passion, but her deep love for music meant she would let nothing stand in her way.
她说她最大的挑战是学习推销, 但在声乐老师霍莉·韦斯的帮助下, the two worked tirelessly over the course of many years to develop and perfect 雪莉安妮’s pitches. 她的毅力得到了回报, earning her high praises from Bill Gaither who was dubbed ASCAP’S Christian Songwriter of the Century. "Anybody from the music field knows this: to sing you have to be able to hear. 我不知道这个年轻女孩是怎么做到的. 她有一副好嗓子,”盖瑟说.
虽然她承认确实有一些挫折, 雪莉安妮 has shown her naysayers that a hearing impairment did not equate to an impossibility when it comes to a singing career.
这是多么了不起的事业啊. 她的。 雪莉·安妮直播! DVD debuted at number five on the Billboard Music Video Chart in 2018, she has won countless awards and honors for her songs, and has even starred in various television and movie productions. 她的。 talents have graced some of the biggest stages in the country, 包括地标剧院, 克莱恩汉斯音乐厅和十字点教堂, 全国四重奏大会主舞台, 和说多莉, 举几个例子. 除了, 她曾在许多会议上发言, sharing her story and other inspirational messages to millions of people. She attributes her ability to connect with people in various circumstances to her psychology minor at Utica, which has clearly served her well over the course of her chiropractic and musical careers.
雪莉·安妮的故事激励了很多人, proving to anyone that if you want something badly enough all you have to do is put in the work, 消除你周围人的疑虑, 走出去,追逐你的梦想.
“If you can dare to dream it, you can do it,”她说。. “但是你必须设定目标.”
——维多利亚·德卢卡写
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