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If you’ve been keeping an eye on the latest MED-EL updates, you may have seen a shiny new implant: SYNCHRONY 2. Our latest cochlear implant combines all the great hearing technology of the [...]

Welcome to our new series on cochlear implant rehabilitation for adults. It’s all about helping you achieve your best with your cochlear implant, from what you can expect, to activities you can [...]

For many years, Sarah from the United States did not want to have a cochlear implant. But when she trained as an audiologist, she discovered that hearing implants would give her the freedom to [...]

If you’re thinking about getting a cochlear implant for your or a loved one, you probably have lots of questions on your mind. And while lots of these are fairly easy for your hearing [...]

Saulo Silveira is a Brazilian artist living in Portugal, who was born profoundly deaf in both ears. Saulo told us about his decision to get cochlear implants, the roles art and painting played in [...]

Today’s Rehab At Home post is about using small, daily problems that come up at home to teach your child new language. We’re going to look more at how we can identify opportunities that arise [...]

Today’s Rehab At Home post is about “Expansion and Extension“. This is another strategy you can use at home with your child to develop their use of spoken language. If your child is using single [...]

Today’s Rehab At Home post is about “Listening first”. This strategy is about providing your child with auditory information first, before giving visual cues—in other words, adding words to your [...]

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 [...]

Parents of children with hearing loss are more likely to focus on teaching their child ‘concrete’ language—for example objects, actions, colors and numbers. Parents are likely to use less [...]