Olympic fever has spread fast and people all around the globe are getting motivated to play sports–even with a hearing implant. Learn how to enjoy sports, from volleyball to swimming to track and field, with your hearing implant!
Peter Nopp is the Director of Research Signal Processing at MED-EL. Peter and his team use mathematical operations to code sound, shaping how and what people with a MED-EL cochlear implant hear! We sit down with Peter to learn about sound coding and find out what fascinates him about working with cochlear implants. MED-EL Blog:
It can be difficult to meet new people, and that’s not to mention meeting people when you have hearing loss. Different voices, different situations, all of this can lead to difficulties in communication. It can be easy to get frustrated if you’re having troubles hearing, but there are some simple ways to get beyond this and keep
As soon as your child has had their cochlear implant activation, they’ll start being able to hear sounds. By giving your child lots of access to meaningful sounds, from the very first days, you can help them to connect these sounds with their meaning.
Getting together with family and friends, for holidays or parties or just for fun, can be enjoyable—but all those people can also make it difficult for someone with hearing loss to hear well. If you want to hear better in times like these, here are some simple tips that you can use. Talk About Your
You can help your child to develop their communication skills even before they receive a cochlear implant. If you’ve chosen for your child to receive an implant, and are in the months or weeks before the implantation or activation, this can be a time filled with different emotions: excitement, anticipation, maybe worry. If you’re not
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