Tips & Tricks

After surgery and recovery, it’s time for the exciting next step in your hearing journey—activating your implant. This is a time that can be both exciting and a little scary. Everyone’s [...]

Have you heard about ideas4ears, our inventing competition for children? MED-EL is looking for the next generation of inventors in hearing technology! The ideas4ears contest invites children [...]

Want to keep your listening skills at the top of their game and get the most out of your cochlear implant? Great! No matter how long you’ve had your CI, it’s always worth challenging your brain [...]

Nine out of ten MED-EL recipients surveyed said that music sounds pleasant through their cochlear implant*. This is partly down to the design of our cochlear implants, which closely mimic natural [...]

Another school year is here, with new lessons, new classmates, and new teachers. And for many kids, it will also have been a long time since they’ve been in the exciting, busy, and noisy [...]

Looking forward to dining out now restaurants are back in business? Background noise in restaurants and cafes can make conversation difficult. Here are five ways to make it easier for hearing [...]

The MED-EL Adult Rehabilitation Kits (ARKs) were first developed to provide rehab professionals tips and materials for their work with cochlear implant recipients so that they could help CI [...]

Has your baby just been diagnosed with hearing loss? Are you considering a cochlear implant for your baby? Or are you waiting for your baby or child to receive a cochlear implant? Here, Natalie [...]

If you have single-sided deafness (SSD) and are one of the increasing number of adults around the world who’ve decided to receive a cochlear implant (CI), you’re probably looking for ways to get [...]

It’s never too early to start reading with your child! Reading books with your child from infancy will support their listening, speech, language and literacy skills to develop. Talking about the [...]