Deaf Child Hears Mother's Voice For First Time, Does Happy Dance (WATCH)

Three-year-old Kennedy Steele did the happy dance after she heard her mother's voice for the first time thanks to a new auditory brainstem implant, according to CBS News.

Steele went to New York University's Langone Medical Center to have the device inserted. The United States Food and Drug Administration ok'd it for children following tests at Langone and other medical facilities in Massachusetts and California.

"Early results are quite encouraging," Dr. J. Thomas Roland, Jr., chair of the department of otolaryngology at NYU Langone, told CBS News. "We think that these kids are getting auditory information and are on a trajectory to develop oral language acquisition and oral speech."

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