When author Martin Levin’s son Jordan was born three months premature and deaf, Levin and his wife were determined to play a primary role in their son’s rehabilitation and to raise an “able disabled child.” Experts said the best the Levins could expect was special schooling and sign language. This relentless couple proved that experts don’t always get it right. They taught their hearing-impaired son to speak against all odds. Now 32-years-old and recently married, Jordan works as a personal trainer and has become an exemplary motivational speaker. Levin shares with your audience their extraordinary and controversial story of lifting a child above his disability to function as a non-disabled person in society. Hear the determined story of how parents’ instincts enabled them to do what was best for their child.
You’ll learn how:
• A family’s determination can win out over a child’s disability.
• Parents, not therapists or counselors, play a central role in the development of a disabled child.
• Parents can move beyond professional help.
• Tough love can make a difference in your child’s life.
• Teen sex, drugs and juvenile delinquency can be avoided by parental intervention.
CREDENTIALS:Marty Levin is an optometrist and co-producer of the critically acclaimed video to prevent childhood
obesity, My Kid’s First Coach. He co-authored the inspirational new book WE WERE RELENTLESS: A Family’s
Journey to Overcome Disability with his son, Jordan.
AVAILABILITY: MI, Nationwide by request and via telephone
CONTACT: Martin Levin, (248) 892-9757 (MI); martylevin9@hotmail.com; www.wewererelentless.com