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Lukas Käfer from Austria was born deaf and implanted with a cochlear implant as a child. But his hearing loss has not stopped him from pursuing his athletic goals and dreams. In today's blog he [...]

Adi, from Austria, has just received his first CI at the age of 80. In today's blog post his daughter Kathrin talks about the big effect her dad's new hearing has had for her family.

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 [...]

Meet Santino: a thirteen-year-old bilateral cochlear implant user from the Philippines. Read on to find out more about Santino’s life with hearing implants and his big dreams for the future!

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 [...]

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 [...]

Don Liveley is a cochlear implant recipient with bilateral MED-EL CIs. In his first article he introduced himself and talked about growing up with hearing loss. Here he finds himself considering [...]

For any child a new activity or event is an experience, and your child's cochlear implant means new sounds and experiences each time.