BOSTON -- Living with a disability is challenging, especially for young children, but an electronic device is changing the life of a very energetic boy.

NewsCenter 5's Heather Unruh reported that nothing slows down 5-year-old Ben Borhegyi -- not even a serious hearing problem.

"I can't hear with just ears. I'm deaf," Ben said.

"We found out that he's deaf on the second day after he was born through newborn hearing screening," Ben's mother, Jenn Borhegyi, said.

Now, Ben has two cochlear implants to help him hear.

The first one he got at one year. It worked so well that Ben and his parents decided to get the second implant just a few months ago.

"It gets implanted into the inner ear, and it has electrodes on it, which essentially replace the hair cells," Jenn Borhegyi said.

The implants are activated by sound processors that are worn around the ears. Ben calls them his sound.

Because of the implants, Ben has new opportunities. This is his first year in a regular school. Seeing him play side by side with his friends is a dream come true for his parents.

"It's really been a wonderful transition in terms of making friends. He has play dates all the time," Jenn Borhegyi said.

"He just loves school," Ben's father, George Borhegyi, said.

The only adjustment for Ben's teacher is that she wears a microphone in class.

"That magnifies my voice to two times above the rest of the noise in the room so that he can hear my voice over everything else during lessons," said Ben's teacher, Lynda Cain.