A California mom had gone for a bite to eat with her deaf 4-year-old son when he did something that caught her completely off guard.

Callie Foster and her husband live in California with their son Luca. “He’s the light of our lives—curious, funny, and so full of personality,” Foster said. “He was diagnosed with hearing loss when he was about six weeks old, and like many hearing parents, we didn’t know where to start.”

The CDC estimates that around three in every 1,000 babies in the U.S. will be born with a detectable level of hearing loss in one or both ears. Foster can still remember her initial reaction to receiving the news and the mix of “love, fear, confusion, and determination” that she felt in that moment. “From the very beginning, we promised ourselves one thing: that Luca wo

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