My schooling started at The Lexington Hearing and Speech Center (The Yellow School) in Lexington, Kentucky. After a few years, I then enrolled as a boarding student at St. Joseph’s Institute for the Deaf, an oral school in St. Louis, MO. At the age of 13, I moved back home to Lexington and mainstreamed at Sayre School for 7th grade through 12th as the school’s only deaf student. After graduating from Sayre, I went to Lenoir-Rhyne College (now, University) in Hickory, North Carolina for two years before transferring to Eastern Kentucky University and graduated with a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting.
Throughout my school years, I used hearing aids and AM/FM loops. In St. Louis, I was adapted to learning how to talk and communicate with fellow classmates and teachers in classroom, before mainstreaming to a hearing environment. I did not have an interpreter until my 1st year in college at Lenoir-Rhyne-College. Today as a Financial Auditor, I use different methods communication from speaking, emails, interpreters, note takers and other reasonable accommodations that is provided to me to enable me to do the job duties. Not everything is a easy process, but to be honest, I have the best of both worlds socially and career wise!
Lemarc Williamson, Financial Auditor,
Commonwealth of Kentucky, Auditor of Public Accounts
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