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Jackson Foster is six years old and is in the first grade.\nHe plays baseball and basketball and loves to swim and ride his bicycle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe\u2019s like any other child,\u201d said Summer Foster, Jackson\u2019s\nmother. \u201cYou wouldn\u2019t even think that he has cochlear implants.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Jackson was born, he failed his newborn hearing\nscreening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe were lost,\u201d said Summer, when she and Wayne, Jackson\u2019s\nfather, received the news. \u201cWe really didn\u2019t know what to do.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Fosters scheduled multiple appointments with an ear,\nnose and throat doctor to obtain a diagnosis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey kept saying, \u2018Oh, I think he can hear. Let\u2019s wait and\ndo this test,\u2019 and so on,\u201d Summer said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, Jackson was diagnosed with permanent hearing loss\nin both ears and underwent cochlear implant surgery just before his second\nbirthday. After he recovered, the Fosters came to Callier to see audiologist\nDr. Holly Marvin for Jackson\u2019s cochlear implant stimulation \u2013 when implants are\nturned on for the first time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cHe was in shock, like whoa, what\u2019s that?\u201d Summer said,\ndescribing Jackson\u2019s initial reaction to sound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Fosters returned to Callier for follow-up appointments\nthroughout the next year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe first six months was\ntough,\u201d Summer said. \u201cHe refused to wear his cochlears. He would throw them. We\nhad to use hearinghenry headbands.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDr. Holly Marvin was an inspiration to us. She was my go\nto,\u201d Summer said. \u201cWhen I was going through a bad day with him, she talked me\nthrough it and told me what I needed to do, and it worked!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAfter a year with implants, he started saying sentences,\nand then he loved his cochlears,\u201d she said. \u201cHe told everybody, \u2018These are my\nmagic ears, and they help me hear.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the first year, Jackson returned to Callier every six\nmonths for two years. When Dr. Marvin moved away, Jackson transitioned to Dr.\nKim Fiorentino, who sees him on an annual basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe\u2019s come leaps and bounds from basically not having any\nintervention until he was two years old, to going into mainstream first grade\nwith his normal-hearing peers,\u201d Dr. Fiorentino said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI tell him every day that there is nothing that you can\u2019t\ndo in life,\u201d Summer said. \u201cI just appreciate Callier so much.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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