User Stories

When their twin sons Alexander and Lukas were born, life as a family started for Matthias and Sandra from Austria. But then they learnt that Alexander has hearing loss, and the young parents were faced with an important decision. In today’s blog post they talk about the journey from diagnosis to cochlear implant, why it

When Christina, from the US, found out that her son Kai had lost his hearing, she was devastated. Then she heard about cochlear implants, and knew immediately that this was the right thing to do for her son. In today’s blog post she tells Kai’s and her story.   My name is Christina and I

When Rosalyn and Justin from the United States found out that their first child Lia was born with Usher Syndrome, a rare genetic disorder resulting in hearing and vision loss, they were devastated. While bilateral MED-EL cochlear implants enable her to hear the world around her and to communicate, Lia’s parents want to do everything

For many years, Sarah from the United States did not want to have a cochlear implant. But when she trained as an audiologist, she discovered that hearing implants would give her the freedom to choose how to communicate. Recently she got her second CI and captured her experiences at the activation on video. Read more