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If you’re thinking about receiving, or have received, a cochlear implant, odds are that you’ve got lots of questions about having cochlear implant surgery. But, you might also be wondering “what’s a good question?” You might think that some questions are silly or too small to matter. That’s not true! Ever question is important. So,

One of the places where people get confused is with all the specialised terms that hearing professionals use in their work. So, to make it easier for you to navigate your hearing journey, we thought it would be nice to put together a brief glossary of terms about hearing and cochlear implants.

In an earlier post we helped answer the question “What is sound?” by showing that sound is basically lots of molecules in the air bouncing against each other. Today we’ll explore how a cochlear implant turns sound into the envelope and fine structure: information that the brain can understand.

Editor’s note: we’re happy to introduce a new guest author, Morgan Martins, who will share with us her experiences with hearing loss and receiving a MED-EL cochlear implant. Here is her first post: My ears have always been my Achilles’ heel. My first disease was an ear infection at just 3 months old, and after

In our last post we talked about what’s important for older adults to know about cochlear implant surgery but what happens after the cochlear implant surgery? Let’s find out: After Cochlear Implant Surgery After having cochlear implant surgery, it’s important to prepare for the beginning of your hearing journey. Depending on where you had your