Hearing aids donated to young student

ROUND ROCK, Texas (KXAN) - A Round Rock student can celebrate his grades likely getting better soon. A local company is stepping up to help him to hear better in class.

Drew Guardado, a fifth grader in Round Rock Christian Academy , has had trouble hearing since he was a small child. He used to wear traditional hearing devices which are bulky.

But a donation from Cook Hearing and Balance has changed all that. The company donated the new bluetooth hearing aids to Drew.

Now he'll be able to hear his teacher talking from greater distances and concentrate better on his work.

"It's helped me in class before I was not being able to hear," Drew Guardado said. "Now I can understand the teachers a lot better, now I'm starting to get my grades -- well my grades are starting to go higher.

Drew said his new hearing aids are so small that people he enounters rarely notice them.