Guest Articles

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

If you’re thinking about getting a cochlear implant for your or a loved one, you probably have lots of questions on your mind. And while lots of these are fairly easy for your hearing [...]

You might remember talented sport star Jodie Ounsley. The 18-year-old British rugby player is not only causing a sensation on the pitch, but is also now getting behind the wheels of her first [...]

René Vergè is a musician and sound engineer from Germany – and he is also a bilateral recipient of MED-EL cochlear implants. He told us about his hearing journey and why, thanks to his cochlear [...]

Núria from Spain is studying biomedical analysis at the University of Barcelona and started using the bone conduction hearing system ADHEAR a few months ago. Here she talks about her (hearing) [...]

Saulo Silveira is a Brazilian artist living in Portugal, who was born profoundly deaf in both ears. Saulo told us about his decision to get cochlear implants, the roles art and painting played in [...]