[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 3]
[House]
[Pages 4118-4119]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                     RECOGNIZING ARIELLE CHIKOVSKY

  (Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Mr. Speaker, I would like to call your attention to 
an extraordinary young woman from South Florida, Arielle Chikovsky.
  As a young girl, Arielle learned that she suffered from Ushers 
Syndrome, a

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genetic disease which causes the hearing-impaired to lose their 
eyesight. Yet Arielle has not let her condition detract her from her 
daily life. Remarkably, last year, at the age of 22, Arielle graduated 
from law school.
  Arielle is a finalist in the American Eagle Live Your Life Essay 
Contest. If named the winner, she plans to donate the $25,000 reward to 
Hope for Vision. Hope for Vision is a nonprofit organization dedicated 
to discovering treatments and cures for retinal degenerative diseases.
  I congratulate Arielle, who sets an example for everyone she 
encounters, and I support Hope for Vision and its leader, Isaac Lidsky, 
for their efforts to find a cure for this disease.

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