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The holiday season is full of festive sounds like laughter at family dinners, clinking cutlery, and cheerful music. But for cochlear implant users, these moments can also bring hearing challenges. To help you make the most of the season, here are some holiday rehab tips, supported by insights directly from our CI community.

If you want to get the most out of your cochlear implant, practicing your listening skills at home is essential. From listening to music to using apps and videos, this article is filled with tips for self-training.

Sylvia is a cochlear implant and hearing aid user. Having access to sound enables her to travel the world and connect with people, providing her with inspiration for her work: She designs and makes women’s clothing.

After eight years of living with single-sided deafness, Carly got a cochlear implant. Today, she is a hearing loss coach who helps others on their hearing journeys. Read all about her hearing story and find out how she discovered the right solution for her single-sided deafness.

For 10 years, Mariia lived with bilateral sensorineural hearing loss, relying only on hearing aids. At the age of 27, she finally decided to get a cochlear implant. After some speech training, Mariia’s life improved personally and professionally. In this article, she tells us all about her experience with her CI and how it supports her in her job as neuroscientist and science journalist.

When Vera realized that hearing aids were no longer enabling her to hear the world around her, she knew she had to do something. Her solution? A cochlear implant from MED-EL. With her CI, she has gotten her hearing back and everything she loves along with it, including her connection to her loved ones.