Remember the recorder? It's that small plastic instrument — looks kind of like a flute or clarinet — that's often the first instrument children learn to play in school. Or, at least, they used to. But ...

Ezra Somnitz, 2, couldn't control his laughter. — -- Learning to play the recorder is hard for any toddler. Still, when Ezra Somnitz, who has been deaf since birth, learned to play the wind ...