Boys Town
Many years ago I went to Omaha, the largest city in the state of Nebraska, located just west of the Missouri River. I went to visit the Boys Town National Institute of Communicative Disorders in Children, an institution devoted to diagnose and establish educational conducts for children with problems in language acquisition, including profound hearing loss. This Institute is particularly interesting, because in the same building there is a very modern hospital, the o Boys Town National Research Hospital, so that the children who need surgical treatment, including cochlear implants, can get immediate attention. I was invited to visit the Institute by the late Dr. John Bordley, who was then a Professor Emeritus of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, in Baltimore. The President of the Institute was Dr. Patrick E. Brookhouser, one of Dr. Bordley’s former residents. Patrick remained very active until his death in 2011. On a beautiful afternoon Dr. Bordley and Patrick took me to Boys Tow...