Osceola cornerback Carlos Becker may be used to the loud noises and Kowboy cheers at football games, but at home, it's all about the quiet.

Carlos -- the child of two deaf parents.

“It’s normal to me. I was raised in a house with a deaf mother, never lived with my father, but it is normal to me. But it is kind of weird going to my friend’s house and seeing them talk to their parents and I can’t go home and talk to my parents,” said Becker.

Instead, Carlos’ talks with his hands.

“Sign was my first language actually. I didn’t start speaking until I got to school.”

Becker was taught to sign by his mom, Dolcie, whose hands move fast as she uses an interpreter to answer questions.

“He has been signing since he was born, so he grew up with it. I showed him signs like food and milk, Mommy, and Daddy. He didn’t say Mommy using the M, but with the one little finger for Mom, and how he did water he did it a little backwards but we still communicated. We communicated well,” explained Dolcie.

While they may have the typical Mom and teenaged son relationship, the dynamic can be a difficult one between a hearing child and deaf parent. Pressed into service as an interpreter at a young age – caught between the deaf community, and the hearing world.

“Some of them don’t like when I talk, and I want to talk because I am hearing and they are deaf. When I was younger I was between both, but now I am myself now," said Becker, while signing.

Himself.

Not the most boisterous.

Not the most vocal.

But his skills speak for him.

“He is one of those ones that you’d like to have ten, twelve, fifteen of him on your team.”

Osceola Coach Doug Nichols has been encouraging Becker to find his voice on the football field. “If there was one thing missing it would be that vocal leadership,” said Coach Nichols.

Carlos will never be the one to sound the rallying call or start the Kowboy chant, but same as when he was a child, he’d rather his hands do the talking for him.

The three star recruit with offers from schools like NC State, Wisconsin, Florida, Notre Dame, and Kentucky. Obviously he is making the right moves on the field, with Mom watching, and waving from the stands.

”I just kind of watch the action and watch the football, what is going on.”

Dolcie doesn’t have to hear to know that her son is rocking the crowd every Friday night.

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