Premium Content Subscriber only Rockhampton’s Evie Williams was just nine weeks old when she was fitted with her first pair of “hot pink” hearing aids. For Rockhampton parents Renee and Jacob, finding out their daughter had been born with hearing loss six years ago was a complete shock. Mrs Williams said her daughter’s diagnosis came after her newborn screen at the hospital. “It was a huge surprise as no one in our families had ever had hearing loss,” she said. “We didn’t know what we were meant to do, and it was pretty scary particularly as we were first-time parents.”