The look on the face of Len Clamp’s 3-year-old son hearing his voice for the first time is a memory the doting dad says he’ll never forget.
“I’ve never seen another look like that,” Clamp described it to WRAL after his adopted son Grayson became the first child to receive an auditory brainstem implant at the UNC Hospital in Chapel Hill, N.C.
“I mean, he looked deep into my eyes, and he was hearing my voice for the first time,” the proud pop beamed.
Late last month Grayson, who was born with a genetic disorder resulting in the loss of his cochlear nerve that carries signals from his ears to his brain, went into surgery as a recipient of a Food and Drug Administration trial.
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Doctors say their original attempt with a cochlear implant, a device embedded into the side of his skull, had no effect because of his entire lack of a cochlear nerve.
Date: June 20, 2013