Adventurous Adam

Adventurous Adam’s own uniqueness is that he wears hearing aids. What is your uniqueness? If you don’t know your uniqueness just yet, you’ll be able to discover it along the way with Adventurous Adam and his friends’ everyday adventures. Adventurous Adam takes you through his everyday life including starting school which can sound scary as it’s something different, but it is not really, it is actually quite exciting meeting new friends and learning new things. Adventurous Adam teaches his friends why he is unique and what it is like to wear hearing aids. Life is for living. The four big influences to take away from this book are: To ACCEPT, to APPRECIATE, be POSITIVE and have EMPATHY for others.

In 2008 Stacey Atkinson worked at a school for young adults with learning difficulties which is where the stigma of wearing hearing aids became apparent to her. This is when the author decided to write a children’s book to eliminate the stigma and support hearing-impaired children. In 2015 the author studied audiology and became an audiologist in 2017. The author wanted to write a book that will support individuals with hearing impairment but most importantly, raise awareness and empathy to help eliminate the stigma of hearing aids.