Below is the YouTube video that Dr. Jill Biden saw that led to the President-elect inviting her to recite an original poem at his Inauguration. This video was made in 2017. Note how much her ability to speak has improved since then. Amanda was born premature and she and her sister both suffered problems due to their early birth, in her case, a speech impediment where, she was not able to pronounce the sound of the letter 'R'. She also suffers from a hearing disorder, not a hearing lose, but the opposite, a hypersensitivity to noise. She was a special-ed student who had to work for years to overcome the problems and she has used poetry as therapy to teach herself proper enunciation and the confidence necessary to speak in public: