After Noah received his hearing aids, with the help of the UnitedHealthcare Children's Foundation, his mom cried tears of joy when he heard birds in his backyard for the first time.
A grant from the UnitedHealthcare Children’s Foundation helps a young boy improve his hearing.
UHCCF Virgil's Story PKG Final Descriptive Accessibility Script
The video shows a child playing on a tab. Instrumental music plays throughout. White text over a blue background appears on the lower left of the screen. The text fades out and the screen cuts to Kori Schrader interviewing in her kitchen. Kori Schrader speaks.
ONSCREEN TEXT: Wyoming, MN
KORI: Virgil is very low-key, very easy, very passive and happy.
White text over a blue background appears on the lower left of the screen. Kori continues interviewing.
ONSCREEN TEXT: Kori Schrader Virgil’s mom
KORI: He's just go with the flow. He loves to eat.
ONSCREEN TEXT: Cliff Schrader Virgil’s dad
A montage shows Virgil eating. It then cuts to Cliff Shrader interviewing with his wife Kori in the kitchen. White text over a blue background appears on the lower left of the screen.
CLIFF: Loves to eat. He's a big snacker. Super inquisitive. He climbs on everything. He jumps, he rolls, he pushes himself along the floor. He's, for all intents and purposes, he's just an everyday two-year-old boy.
The montage dissolves to white to reveal a baby photo of Virgil. Then it goes back to a close-up of Kori interviewing to a wide shot of Kori and Cliff..
KORI: He was about six months old. We kind of noticed that he wasn't being alerted to loud noises. You could walk into a room, walk up behind him and clap your hands really loud and he would shudder or anything. No reaction. So that's kind of when we started wondering if there might be a difficulty in hearing then.
CLIFF: So we went and got him seen for his ear, nose and throat stuff and then that's when they found out that his adenoids were so big that they were pinching off the tubes to his ears.
A montage shows Virgil in the hospital bed. The video then jumps back and forth between the parents interviewing and shots of Virgil. Cliff continues speaking.
CLIFF: When he had his surgery, it was like, "All right, this is awesome." Because they did, they came and they confirmed that, "Hey, his adenoids were huge." And we also put tubes in his
ears because his drainage was suffering. It was just healing after that. It took about a month to just kind of get back to his normal self. We noticed some slight change right away, but then it started picking up where he could start hearing those loud noises. We noticed his reaction to stuff, which was just a complete difference from what he was before.
A montage shows Virgil jumping, then returns to parents interviewing.
KORI: Whenever a child has surgery or anybody in your house has surgery. It's a big hit to your financial budget.
CLIFF: You are able to operate your life financially, day-to-day, pretty easy, until bam. Now there's $3,000 out of nowhere that you need.
A blue transparent screen appears with white text.
ONSCREEN TEXT: Cliff and Kori applied for a UnitedHealthcare Children's
Foundation grant to help pay for Virgil's surgery.
The text dissolves to Kori and Cliff interviewing interspersed with photos of Virgil..
KORI: When we knew that we had to have surgery, that was a nice little reassurance in the back of our mind, knowing that if the bills do come in and they are larger than what we expected, we can reach out and apply.
CLIFF: And apply for the grant. To have an organization like UHCCF that has so many people, great donors and people that are involved in it, to be able to do this for people like us is just amazing. And it's one of the greatest resources for kids I think that's out there. We all travel our own path. We all accomplish things differently than each other, right? But the hope is that you have all the same opportunities as everybody.
KORI: We're just trying to figure out Virgil and how we can best help him in his life. Virgil and how we can best help him in his future and growing breakfast.
CLIFF: Yeah, live his best life.
KORI: UnitedHealthcare Children's Foundation is a blessing to this family.
A white screen appears with blue text and a multi-colored butterfly icon. Music fades out.
ONSCREEN TEXT: UnitedHealthcare children’s
foundation
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