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In the mornings, before her mother attaches the external transmitter of her cochlear implant, 3-year-old Reya Pitzo, who is deaf, is pretty quiet.
The second we attach her magnet, her vocalization goes through the roof,” said Jalena Pitzo, Reya’s mother. “She is singing, humming, and she does that all day long until we take it off at night, and then she’s quiet again.”
Reya, a bright, sunny girl with a fondness for dogs, communicates with her parents mostly through sign language. But she is learning how to hear, and how to speak. The implants that allow this to happen are new to her — she had her first about six months ago, and just had an implant in her other ear within the last month. Pitzo, 29, of Wausau, said there is already a difference in how Reya relates to the world around her.
