Watch the deaf girl who has become an award-winning ballroom dancer
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A six-year-old deaf girl has become an award-winning ballroom dancer after learning her moves from Strictly Come Dancing.
Audrey Tyrrell, from Dovercourt in Essex, was diagnosed with bilateral sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) as a baby and got her first hearing aid when she was just six weeks old.
She took up dance lessons when she was a toddler but she struggled to hear her teacher.
Audrey didn’t give up and her disability didn’t stop her from following her passion. To learn dance moves, she turned to Strictly Come Dancing – the hit BBC show.
She’d use her lip-reading skills to understand Strictly judges’ comments to improve her own dancing.
Her mum Tracey, said: “I’ve always loved Strictly Come Dancing, I had it on the television when she was four and Audrey would watch with me. She then asked her dad to dance with her and asking him to lift her up and everything.”
“And then from then she wanted to do dancing, particularly ballroom, and take classes. Strictly Come Dancing is definitely where her love for dancing has come from, she watches it as though she is going to be on there.”
She went on to take lessons at Ballroom Business in Essex and has won four competitions so far.
Tracey said: “This is amazing as she’d only just turned six and was dancing against children up to two years older. She has won the under six’s and received the highest grade which is an honours.”
Her mother, Tracey says that Audrey has proved that anything is possible. She says that she never thought she would ever dance.
She said: “But now she is doing all of this – she proves that you can still achieve everything. What she has proved to me is anything is possible.”