Sheldon Aspeling who is dyslexic and deaf has opened his own salon in Westering. Picture: BRIAN WITBOOI
IT takes a special kind of grit to overcome the double disability of being deaf and dyslexic, but for one Port Elizabeth hairdresser it just made him more determined to succeed.
And that is exactly what Sheldon Aspeling, 30, has done.
Multi-award-winning Aspeling opened his own salon – Best Kept Secret – in Westering last month and already has more than 40 regular clients.
“I am thrilled to go to work now because I felt like I had been working hard for someone else’s success but I did not receive any benefits. It was almost as if I was in a rut,” he said.
“I am proud of myself for not giving up on my dreams.”
But it has been a long journey for Aspeling, whose parents realised early in his life that he was not responding to sound.
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