“We can all overcome the challenges that life puts in front of us, and not only overcome them, but become better because of them,” said graduate Heather Porter
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- Heather Porter experienced hearing loss after she was diagnosed with an autoimmune inner ear condition
- The Arizona mom raised 11 children as a single mother while pursuing her graduate degree at Grand Canyon University
- With her master’s degree, Porter hopes to work as a psychotherapist for the hard-of-hearing community
A single mother of 11 has earned a master’s degree after overcoming hearing loss.
Heather Porter, who was an undergraduate student when she first started noticing she had hearing trouble, received her graduate degree from Grand Canyon University in Phoenix on April 29.
“I was, like, really struggling to understand things that other people were easily understanding,” she recalled of that time in her life to ABC 10…