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Rebekah Funkhouser has plenty to say about UMW. The Washington Guide tells prospective students about scholarships, financial aid \u2026 and the time she saw a live camel crossing Ball Circle. But it\u2019s the first thing she shares with the groups that gather for tours across campus that makes her own journey through college so personal.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have a cochlear implant,\u201d she says. \u201cIf I don\u2019t answer your question, ask me again.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Junior Rebekah Funkhouser leads a UMW tour for middle-schoolers. The psychology major completed a summer internship at the Oregon Hearing Research Center. She studied cochlear implant users, like herself. Photo by Suzanne Carr. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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A Washington Guide in UMW’s Office of Admissions, Rebekah Funkhouser is a psychology major with a linguistics minor. She hopes to earn an advanced degree in either speech therapy or audiology. Photo by Suzanne Carr. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n

The device restored the hearing she lost as an infant, but it took years to polish her speech. Now, with an internship at one of the country\u2019s top hearing research centers under her belt and help from UMW\u2019s Office of Disability Resources, she\u2019s found a new voice. And in the career she plans to pursue in audiology, she\u2019ll help others find their voices, too.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just want to be an advocate for spoken language,\u201d said Funkhouser, a junior psychology major with a linguistics minor. \u201cI think it\u2019s completely possible for hearing-impaired people to learn how to talk and talk well.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Junior Rebekah Funkhouser arrives at her summer internship at the Oregon Hearing Research Center. She studied cochlear implant users, like herself.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

She was just 9 months old when bacterial meningitis \u2013 the country\u2019s second most common cause of auditory loss \u2013 took her hearing, forcing her parents to fit her with not one but two hearing aids. When they failed to work, doctors placed a cochlear implant inside her head behind her right ear, to stimulate the auditory nerve. After the hours-long surgery was over, Funkhouser\u2019s battle was just beginning.<\/p>\n

For years, she would climb in the car with her mother on Saturdays for the two-hour trek from their home in Mount Jackson, Virginia, to an auditory specialist in Richmond. Little by little, through techniques like imaginary dialogue with dolls and stuffed animals, she perfected her speech.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy therapists always wanted me to be more and more specific,\u201d said Funkhouser, who owned a town full of conversation-inducing Barbie gear \u2013 dream house, hotel, airplane, you name it. \u201cSpeech therapy pushed me to become an extreme storyteller.\u201d<\/p>\n

From kindergarten through high school, she blossomed in her small tight-knit community, but the cafeteria and other loud places posed problems. Music class was \u201ca nightmare,\u201d she said. Restaurants and concerts \u2013 think Justin Bieber, Darius Rucker and Miley Cyrus \u2013 take the frustration up one more notch.<\/p>\n

So when Funkhouser headed to college, she made it a point to learn what tools each school could offer. Mary Washington \u2013 with multiple resources, including the TypeWell system, where professors wear microphones that send lectures to off-site transcribers \u2013 rose to the top.<\/p>\n

Funkhouser was a sophomore when she landed her first internship, a stint with her childhood auditory therapist, where \u201cit was really cool to be on the other side of things,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

A second internship this past summer \u2013 this one at the Oregon Hearing Research Center in Portland \u2013 took her over the top. Of the hundreds who applied, only two dozen were chosen by the facility, where many researchers, including Funkhouser\u2019s mentor, Dr. Lina Reiss, have hearing loss themselves.<\/p>\n

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Funkhouser poses during her internship at the Oregon Hearing Research Center with her mentor, Dr. Lina Reiss. Both women suffer from hearing loss. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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During her internship at the Oregon Hearing Research Center, Funkhouser studied the perceptions of people with both cochlear implants and hearing aids. <\/div> <\/div>
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During the internship Funkhouser landed with the Oregon Hearing Research Center, one of the top facilities of its type in the nation, she worked with researchers, many of whom, like herself, suffer from hearing loss. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n

\u201cIt was a really unique experience,\u201d Funkhouser said. \u201cI got to learn alongside someone who\u2019s had the same hardships as me.\u201d<\/p>\n

As she conducted her own study, examining the perceptions of people with both cochlear implants and hearing aids, she referred to the notes she\u2019d hauled across the country. Thick with information about data collection, ethics, presentation and more, the lessons she\u2019d learned in UMW Associate Professor of Psychology Hilary Stebbins\u2019 research methods class \u201ccame up over and over again.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s an extraordinarily driven student,\u201d Stebbins said of Funkhouser. \u201cShe doesn\u2019t just take every opportunity, she goes out and finds<\/em> opportunities to do really impressive things.\u201d<\/p>\n

Like joining a faculty-led program to Venice and Croatia, traveling to Central America with Students Helping Honduras, joining next semester\u2019s Three-Cities study abroad program in Italy, and prepping for grad school. \u201cDr. Becky\u201d has a nice ring to it, said Funkhouser, who plans to pursue a degree in speech therapy or audiology. For now, she\u2019s pouring her energy into enjoying her time as an undergrad.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love bragging about how awesome Mary Washington is,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s really fun to take people on tours and tell them about the school and all we have to offer.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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