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Thursday, June 20, 2013

THIS IS THE FACE OF A TODDLER HEARING FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME

WBTV 3 News, Weather, Sports, and Traffic for Charlotte, NC The heartwarming reactions of deaf people being given the gift of sound through new technologies and surgeries is something that doesn’t seem to get old. So here’s yet another.

This time, a 3-year-old boy from North Carolina received a first-of-it’s kind surgery for a child in the U.S. where he was given an “auditory brain stem implant,” WBTV-TV reported.

Although some deaf patients are given the ability to hear through a cochlear implant, this didn’t work for Grayson Clamp who was born missing cochlear nerves.

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