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Preschool and school-aged children receiving implants may have had some hearing, speech, and language before implantation. But even so, the time after activation is an adjustment period as they [...]

When children get cochlear implants, it’s important that they wear their audio processors regularly throughout their waking hours. Research tells us that wearing time is linked to communication [...]

If your child has hearing loss, confidence, reslience, and self-advocacy are especially important to their development. In this blog post, we’ll take a closer look at these attributes and show [...]

Whether it’s for checking your Instagram account, looking up directions or just making good old fashioned phone calls, smartphones have infinite uses. You can even use them to help build your [...]

Experience books are a fun, easy, and inexpensive way to develop your child’s listening, language, and speech skills. We’re going to look more at what an experience book is and explain some ways [...]

Today’s Rehab At Home post is about rhyming. Recognising and generating rhyming words is an important skill for your child to master before learning to read and write.   Why Is Rhyming [...]

Today’s Rehab At Home post is about the Ling Six Sound Test. The Ling Test is a simple activity you can do each morning to check your child can hear all of the sounds of speech with their [...]

We chat with 24-year-old Max about his first memories as a cochlear implant user, his thoughts on technological developments in the past decades, and what he appreciates most about his hearing.

Learning time isn’t just during rehabilitation sessions—language learning happens every single hour of your child’s life while using their cochlear implant! A car beeping, a squeaky shopping [...]

Have you ever wanted to hear straight from another parent about what it’s like to have a child with hearing loss? Mothers know best, as they say! Meet Chelsea, whose one-year-old son Elijah is a [...]