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
Whether you have just received an implant or you’ve had it for a while, these music training apps are sure to help you on your journey. As a CI recipient, a musician, and a musicologist at MED-EL, Johanna has the perfect personal insights to share these awesome tips with you.
Home is a place of comfort, safety, love, meals, relaxation, importance, value, and endless communication. For a person with hearing loss or a hearing implant user, home can sometimes be a difficult place in terms of hearing ability. For example, a living room with high ceilings and hard floors can cause sound to echo, making
Hearing implants are one of the most effective ways to help restore a sense of hearing for someone with significant sensorineural hearing loss. However, the result is always different for each recipient. It takes time for someone’s ears to adjust to the new sound stimulation from the hearing implant, and for the brain to learn
When you first begin listening with your hearing implant, you may be surprised at all the different sounds there are in your world. There are some sounds which are important and need to be attended to, such as alarms and moving cars at a crossing. Other sounds can be background noise and don’t require a
