28-Apr-08	Bilateral Cochlear Implants: A Fitting Choice for Mother and Daughter
01-Mar-07	Advamed Ad
01-Oct-06	SO Magazine Article featuring Michelle Tjelmeland Michelle Tjelmeland can take it. Whatever life's dishing out, she's up to the task. She's had to be.
14-Aug-06	Hear Hear Michelle and her daughter, Ellie, each receive a second cochlear implant to improve their hearing.
03-Jun-06	Lending an Ear for Future Generations Ellie and Michelle are part of the national AdvaMed Campaign in 2006.
02-Jun-06	AdvaMed Campaign 3 Ellie and Michelle will be part of the national AdvaMed Campaign in 2006.
01-Jun-06	AdvaMed Campaign 2 Ellie and Michelle were part of the national AdvaMed Campaign.
08-May-06	Profiles in Progress You Can See AdvaMed, the world's largest association representing manufacturers of medical devices, diagnostic products and medical information systems, is undertaking a broad education program in 2006 designed to create awareness of the breadth and value of advanced medical technology (devices and diagnostics). As part of this education effort, AdvaMed is planning a program called, “Profiles in Progress You Can See.”  The program will feature people who have benefited from medical technology.
08-Apr-06	Lending an Ear for Future Generations Michelle and her daughter Ellie have been selected to participate in the AdvaMed educational photo exhibition campaign on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. in June of 2006. AdvaMed is the world's largest association representing manufacturers of medical devices, diagnostic products and medical information systems, education program designed to create awareness of the breadth and value of advanced medical technology (devices and diagnostics). Michelle and her daughter will meet the President of the United as well as members of the House and Senate and congressional members.
08-Apr-06	Hearing Her Calling Michelle Tjelmeland has been deaf since the age of 22, but that hasn’t stopped her from running a successful web site design business, launching a non-profit foundation to assist families affected by hearing loss, and from being a devoted mom to her two daughters — Lucy, 5, and Ellie, 7, who is also deaf.
11-Nov-05	Taylorville native meets Microsoft mogul Michelle Klemm Tjelmeland has been selected as one of five winners nationwide in the Microsoft "Start Something Amazing Awards."
11-Nov-05	Microsoft Start Something Amazing Winner Tjelmeland, who lives in Springfield, Ill., is one of five winners of Microsoft Corp.'s Start Something Amazing awards, recognizing people who use the company's technology to pursue everyday passions. She received the award Thursday from Microsoft Corp. founder Bill Gates at the company's headquarters in Redmond, Wash.
10-Nov-05	Local Business Woman Honored After conducting a five-month nationwide search, Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT- News) today announced the five winners of its Start Something Amazing Awards, honoring Michelle Tjelmeland of Springfield, Ill., for her unique and inspiring use of Microsoft® Windows®-related technology to pursue her passions of building Web sites and helping families affected by hearing loss.
12-Mar-05	Michelle Tjemeland Wins Insprirational Deaf Person of the Year Michelle Tjelmeland, owner of Springfield-based e-websmart.com, a Web- development and consulting firm, received first-place honors in the 2005 Oticon Focus on People Awards, held in San Diego in February.
26-Jun-03	Tjelmeland Wins Business Owner of the Year The Greater Springfield Chamber of Commerce announced its small business of the year awards Wednesday.
20-Jun-03	Local woman finds path to happiness leads home Confucius says, 'Choose a job you like and you'll never have to work a day in your life.' I think that's very true," says small business owner Michelle Tjelmeland (pronounced "chum-land"). In just three years, Tjelmeland has turned her passion into an award-winning corporation, E-websmart, that allows her to do professional work at home.
08-Apr-02	Hear, Hear Hear, hear / After suffering the same congenital hearing loss and undergoing cochlear implant surgeries, a Springfield mother and daughter are hearing the sounds of success
19-Sep-00	Joyful Sounds Someday in the not-too-distant future, Ellie and Michelle Tjelmeland should be able to hear each other perfectly.
01-Oct-99	Sounds of Silence Someday in the not-too-distant future, Ellie and Michelle Tjelmeland should be able to hear each other perfectly.