Tips & Tricks

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

Getting together with family and friends, for holidays or parties or just for fun, can be enjoyable—but all those people can also make it difficult for someone with hearing loss to hear well. If you want to hear better in times like these, here are some simple tips that you can use. Talk About Your

You can help your child to develop their communication skills even before they receive a cochlear implant. If you’ve chosen for your child to receive an implant, and are in the months or weeks before the implantation or activation, this can be a time filled with different emotions: excitement, anticipation, maybe worry. If you’re not

Pretend play is simple, you can do it just about anywhere, and it helps your child develop a whole range of skills that will help them throughout their life. What is pretend play? It’s simple: any game, activity, or storytelling that uses imagination. There are lots of different skills that it helps to build, and

It doesn’t matter who you are, where you’re from, or what your interests are. Listening to music is one of those universal experiences that almost everyone can enjoy—even if you have a cochlear implant. Listening to Music “Listening to music” isn’t just one single term or idea. There are lots of different aspects that come

Gemma Mole is a hearing therapist and MED-EL cochlear implant recipient who got to treat her single-sided deafness. Earlier, we shared her story of her receiving a cochlear implant; here she dips into her therapist’s bag of tricks with some rehabilitation tips for those with single-sided deafness.