Tips & Tricks

Here are some tips from Tammy, who received bilateral cochlear implants to treat her sensorineural hearing loss. She’s had support from friends and family, and has lots of information about what you can tell your friends and family. Tammy’s Hearing Loss It’s likely an autoimmune inner ear disease caused my sensorineural hearing loss, and only

Want to build your listening and communication skills? A great and easy way to do that is with speech tracking. Speech tracking is a method of practicing and evaluating your listening skills, and can also help you and your communication partner develop more efficient methods of fixing a communication breakdown.

If you’ve got a dog, odds are that you’ll take it out for a walk quite a bit. Here are some ways that you can turn a simple walk into exciting activities to help your child develop listening and language skills. Talk about Everything As you’re walking around, talk about everything that you see or

Lots of rehabilitation exercises focus on developing language, speaking, and listening skills. These are all important skills for spoken communication, but there’s more that can be done with sound and rehabilitation. Engaging with music or playing an instrument adds more. It partially builds on some of the skills taught in rehabilitation—like understanding pitch, loudness, and

Repetition is fantastic for children who are learning vocabulary. It might seem incredibly monotonous— maybe even boring—for parents, but this repetition helps your child develop many of their language skills.

If you’ve chosen to get a cochlear implant, or have just received one, congratulations! It’s a big and exciting step towards connecting with all the sounds in your life. To get you off on the right foot, we’ve put together this information that you can use before getting your cochlear implant: before the surgery, or