Identical twins Kacey and Lacey Sellers, 4, were born deaf. Their disability wasn't discovered, however, until the age of two, when their parents became worried that neither had yet spoken. An ironworker at the time, their father, Jesse, cashed in his health insurance to pay for the $86,000 per-child cochlear implant surgery. Now, a year and a half after the surgery, they are essentially at the hearing level of a newborn. The girls have equipment to help them hear, but speech and other sounds are still foreign to them.
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