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

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

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

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.