A listening diary can be one of the most effective ways of tracking your child’s listening development over months and years. By keeping track of each day’s or week’s hearing-related developments and challenges you can create a resource that helps you, your child, and your child’s therapists. (If your child has just received his or
Editor’s note: Don Liveley is a recipient of bilateral cochlear implants. In his previous posts on The MED-EL Blog he talked about his childhood with hearing loss, and receiving his cochlear implants. The physical disability of deafness is only a part of the equation of challenges we cochlear implant recipients face. The other part of
If you’ve recently received a cochlear implant, the first few months will be filled with lots of new experiences and changes. That’s because your brain is learning how to interpret the information it receives from a cochlear implant.
Difficult listening situations don’t mean that you have to hear poorly. With these tips you may be able to improve your hearing and listening skills regardless of the intruding sounds. What’s a Difficult Listening Situation? Do any of these sound familiar to you? Dinner at a restaurant, where it seems like you can hear the
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