She was focussed solely on all the development lessons the doctors suggested to bring Christian’s learning up to as close to the standards of a child of a similar age. She never did go back to modelling, supporting herself and her child on the monthly allowance from her small trust fund, bestowed by her grandfather, and interest on her prior earnings. They certainly did not struggle, living in a spacious two-bedroom beach cottage in Hamptons part of the time, and a city condominium the rest of it. Once he had his first birthday, he was put up as a candidate for bilateral cochlear implants, with the surgery taking place months later. Employing the skills of a Listening and Spoken Language Educator for Christian, Elle decided she wanted to explore the Auditory-Verbal Education route, before he entered school. She was still undecided whether placing him in a more mainstream school would be best. A close friend of hers ran a small, private funded deaf school in Northern England that she would be interested in looking into, once he was four.
