San Clemente teen’s hearing loss tale shared in her new book

Valli Gideons was picking up her daughter Harper’s spilled backpack when she came across a journal the then-10-year-old had written for school.
In an entry that asked her to describe what made her unique, she had written: “My name is Harper and I’m deaf.”
“My mom and dad had this weird gene thing that caused a part of the inside of my ear to be enlarged — by the size of a hair,” Harper wrote for her assignment at Marblehead Elementary in San Clemente. &l