Rita Simons: My Daughter, Deafness and Me
EASTENDERS actress Rita Simons (above) has five-year-old twin daughters, one of whom was diagnosed with impaired hearing soon after birth.
Simons has just had the shocking news that she will probably lose her hearing completely and the family must make life-changing decisions for her future.
Should they embrace the deaf world, learn to sign and send her to a specialist school or try to give her hearing with technology, implants and artificial sound?