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 a cochlear implant.
We already showed you some games that you can play to help your child develop his or her listening skills. But there are other things you can do! Here are 10 other auditory techniques or strategies that you can use throughout your day.
What’s the best way to have good listening and speaking skills? It’s to have a solid foundation built on noticing and recognizing sounds. Playing listening games is a good way to develop these basic skills.
Residual hearing is the ability to hear some sounds even if a hearing loss exists. Having residual hearing is important because it can have a substantial impact on a person’s hearing performance both now and in the future.
It can be simple to practice your listening skills when you’re with an audiologist or speech language pathologist—as easy as doing the games or tasks they have prepared—but what happens when you’re not with your hearing professional? If you’re at home, what can you do? Here are some games and exercises that you can use
If you’re a teacher, one day you might be introduced to a new student who has a cochlear implant or hearing implant. Or you already have a student who is a cochlear implant recipient. Wait, what’s a cochlear implant? Why does this child have a cochlear implant? What does that mean?
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