Tips & Tricks

Games and activities can be one of the best ways to help your child with a cochlear implant to develop speaking and listening skills. But if you’ve got a young child, under three years, I know that he or she might be easily distracted and unable to follow along with structured activities for very long.

If your baby has just received a cochlear implant, now’s the time to help them dive into the world of sound. One of the best ways to promote spoken communication skills is by building a solid foundation of sound awareness, listening, and auditory skills for language and speech skills. So we’ve put together six listening games and activities you can play with your baby to build these auditory skills.

A cochlear implant can help your child to hear sounds, but to listen to them—that’s an important skill that’s worth developing. Listening skills develop in stages, and like any other skill, practice can make perfect. This is where you come in: you can help your child to develop his or her listening skills. Your child

A cochlear implant can help your child to listen and communicate in amazing ways, but like everybody sometimes your child might find it hard to communicate in a conversation. Often this is because your child, or the person he or she is communicating with, just doesn’t understand what’s being said. So, when you’re talking with

If your child was born with a significant sensorineural hearing loss, a cochlear implant can be one of the best ways to help them connect with the world of sound. Because every child’s hearing loss is different, each will hear and develop differently after receiving a cochlear implant. So to help you understand more about

An experience book is like a diary, except it is made for you and your child to read together. For a child with hearing loss, an experience book can be a very valuable tool for learning and practicing the listening and communication skills that he or she will use throughout life. They’re easy to put