Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - KGO - 20141126:10:44:00
Here's abc's john donvan. >> asher. >> reporter: it was futile calling his name because asher goldberg, 2 years old, was born deaf. his own big voice among all the sounds he never heard. it's not that asher sensed anything missing. he didn't know what sound was, but his parents suffered the loss for him. >> hey, asher, i'm daddy. >> it was difficult. >> reporter: they decided to give asher some shot at hearing and went with a cochlear implant, a device that turns sound into electric impulses in the brain. when it was switched on for the first time it worked. >> asher. >> reporter: that little ...