Southern California Man Relocates to Middle East to Help Deaf Children Hear

Published on December 22, 2023

As Shem, 7, sat with an audiologist in Amman, Jordan, her father closely analyzed a pipe-like medical instrument going into her ear canal to test and activate her new hearing aid. Once the power button was pressed and sound waves were activated, Shem’s eyes expanded with happiness as she was finally able to hear for the first time. “She was just oozing with excitement once the audiologist activated that power button,” Jason Szolomayer, founder of 3DP4ME—which stands for “3D printing for me”—a U.S.-based nonprofit that specializes in providing children with 3D printed hearing-aid technology, told The Epoch Times. “As tears began to fall from her father’s eyes, the trajectory of Shem’s life was about to change forever.”...