Sweet Nothing in My Ear

CBS

April 20, 9 p.m. ET/PT.

This Hallmark Hall of Fame drama features Jeff Daniels and Marlee Matlin as a couple facing an unusual situation. Their child, born with normal hearing, becomes deaf at an early age. The mother learns to accept the loss because she has been deaf all her life. However, her husband begins to wonder if a cochlear implant operation might improve his son's hearing.

The debate about implants, with impassioned voices on both sides, has been in the public square for years; here is a thoughtful dramatization of what some families actually experience.

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