Welcome back to our Rehab at Home for Adults series where you can learn how to reach everyday listening goals and improve your hearing. Today’s goal is about hearing the TV clearly at a volume that is comfortable for everyone.
38-year-old Finnish musician Laura has been using SONNET audio processors with an EAS system to learn to hear music with her cochlear implants. In last month’s article, she told us all about the system, how she hears with it, and how the cochlear implants impacted her life. Today, Laura will talk about her rehab and which steps she had to take to rediscover music with her cochlear implants.
Meet 38-year-old Laura, a musician and cochlear implant user from Finland. Laura lost her hearing in 2018 and could not carry on with everyday life and could no longer make music. In this article, she tells us how life with hearing loss felt and how an EAS system—consisting of cochlear implant technology for high-pitched sounds and hearing aid technology for low-pitched sounds—helped her go back to fully enjoying and making music again.
Communicating in crowded rooms or with background noise can be hard even for people with normal hearing. But hearing implant users can have a hard time understanding everything that is said and therefore feel frustrated during a conversation. As a family member or friend of someone who uses a hearing implant or who has hearing loss, there are a few things you can do to help make communication easier. Here are five tips for ways you can help.
Bertus from South Africa decided to get a cochlear implant after being diagnosed with profound hearing loss at the age of 66. In this article, he tells us openly how he decided on a cochlear implant, how it improved his life, and what he wishes for the future.
Markus, an organ tuner, faced sudden hearing loss but found hope with the BONEBRIDGE implant. Using MED-EL's SAMBA processor, he continues to fine-tune organs with precision, proving that hearing loss doesn't limit capabilities.
