Another important part of cochlear implant rehabilitation involves learning strategies to improve your daily communication. This includes strategies to improve your listening environment, communication strategies for you as a CI recipient, and for you to share with your communication partner(s).
You probably celebrate your birthday, but what about your hearing anniversary? Here’s everything you need to know about throwing a party to commemorate the day you or your loved one’s hearing implant was activated. What Is A Hearing Anniversary? Hearversary. AnnEARversary. Hearing birthday. There are several different names for hearing anniversaries, but the idea is
In previous months, we have given you tips and resources to get you started with your listening practice. Activities have focused on listening for specific speech sounds in words, common phrases and sentences. The topic of this post is ‘Speech Tracking’. What Is Speech Tracking? Speech tracking is a good activity for all recipients, wherever
Instagram might be best known for wanderlust-inducing travel pictures and mouth-watering food shots, but did you know that it’s also a great place to connect with hearing implant users from around the world? There’s a huge community of cochlear implant recipients and parents exchanging insights into their hearing journey as well as advice for others.
Tis the Season to be jolly! No matter the celebration—Christmas, Hanukah, Ramadan, Independence Day, etc, how can you make sure to get the most out of any holiday season? Keri Reynolds, a bilateral cochlear implant user and the Consumer Outreach Manager at MED-EL USA, shares some ways to enjoy this holiday season with your CI,
Last month, we gave you some tips and resources to kick off your listening practice. Those activities focused on common whole words, phrases, and sentences. In this blog post we have another free resource to help you to continue with your listening practice. These activities focus on how you can practice listening for and discriminating
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