'It's thrilling:' Technology and helping hands 'shaping the lives' of deaf Florida father & son

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Beckett Tweet is just like any other 12-year-old boy, except for one thing: he was born profoundly deaf. However, doctors were able to detect Beckett’s hearing issues early, giving him a cochlear implant at just one year old.“The cochlear implant has improved my life so much,” the Fruit Cove Middle School student said with a big smile. “Without it, I would not be able to communicate with my peers the way I do.” STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE Now, Beckett can hear thanks to that implant, alongside countless hours of training to properly process the sounds around him.Additionally, Beckett hasn’t had to go through his journey alone, as his dad, Aaron Tweet, was also born deaf. Aaron got his first cochlear implant at the same time as Beckett, hearing for the first time himself at 31 years old.Read: BACK TO SCHOOL: Lake City Police Department is hiring school crossing guards“Every day I would be turning the radio on and listening to it trying to catch all the words,” Aaron Tweet recounted. “Every once and a while I would let my family know ‘Is that what I’m hearing?’ and they’d say ‘ya,’ and I’d get really excited.”Now, the
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