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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 understanding conversations while in [...]

Misdiagnosed as autistic, Grzegorz Płonka spent most of his childhood in a school for children with mental disabilities and was unable to speak. This changed when he got diagnosed with profound [...]

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 [...]

Connect, learn, hear: Hearpeers is MED-EL’s international community for people with hearing implants, those considering getting a hearing implant, and family or friends of implant users or [...]

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 understanding conversation in small groups.

After cochlear implant activation, hearing your child say their first word is one of the early but powerful milestones along their hearing journey. But getting to that first word takes time, [...]

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 overhearing conversation.

Erika from Italy was born deaf, as was her son Kevin, and it took her 40 years to get a cochlear implant. Together with her son, she is now working on rehabilitation and getting used to the world [...]

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 [...]

Our Rehab at Home for Adults series focuses on one everyday listening goal at a time. This time it’s all about understanding conversations in quiet environments.