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Article: My three kids may be deaf .. but they have all made me so proud; Frances Dolan's three children were all born deaf because of a rare gene defect - but they have shown true grit to ensure their disabilities don't stop them living their lives to the full.(News)
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- Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
- Article date:
- March 17, 2001
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Byline: MARIA CROCE
EVERY night, Frances Dolan logs on to her computer and chats on-line with her daughter Mary Frances, who lives hundreds of miles away.
Like any proud mum, she loves to find out about all that is going on in her grown-up daughter's life.
But Frances will never be able to just pick up the phone and speak to her eldest child, who works as a science teacher in London.
Mary Frances is profoundly deaf - just like her sister Katrina, 21, and her 13-year-old brother Philip.
In fact, although Frances and her husband Philip, 53, can both hear ...