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 Grace
Arnold Gore is currently a second year doctoral student of Audiology at
Vanderbilt University. After high school, she attended the College of
Charleston in South Carolina for two years before transferring to the
University of Mississippi, where she received a Bachelors of Science degree
in Communicative Disorders. Grace spent the summer semester of 2005 studying
at Lorenzo de Medici in Florence, Italy.
Throughout her year as Miss Tennessee, Grace will travel the state as the official spokesperson for the Governor’s Safe and Drug Free Tennessee Program and as an advocate for the Children’s Miracle Network. In addition, she will work to further develop her philanthropic platform, “Hearing: Conservation, Rehabilitation, and Awareness.” Grace has enjoyed working with the Ear Foundation, whose national headquarters is in Nashville, to promote her platform of Hearing: Conservation, Rehabilitation, and Awareness. With over 28 million people in the U.S. suffering from hearing impairment, she recognizes the importance of maximizing communication ability in order to improve the quality of life for the hearing impaired. With the Ear Foundation, Grace has distributed free hearing protection devices at Nashville Super Speedway car races and has collected survey data about public perceptions of loudness. Because developmental delays are prevalent in children with hearing loss, Grace has provided early intervention by performing Auditory Brainstem Testing in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital. She has also worked in hearing screening programs in Nashville metro area Head Start Centers to identify the need for further diagnostic testing. Grace is the daughter of Jay and Darlene Gore. She enjoys snow skiing, water skiing, travel, and drinking coffee with her parents on the back porch swing. |
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