There's no doubt that December 8th is a day that Jennifer Aprea will never forget for the rest of her life. Her little boy, Ryan, who'd spent much of his life in the hospital and who was diagnosed as "profoundly deaf" when he was seven months old, heard her voice for the first time thanks to a cochlear implant.

Ryan was fitted with his new hearing aid, and in a precious moment captured on video, he heard his mom's voice for the first time.

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