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

Gemma Mole is a hearing therapist and MED-EL cochlear implant recipient who got to treat her single-sided deafness. Earlier, we shared her story of her receiving a cochlear implant; here she dips into her therapist’s bag of tricks with some rehabilitation tips for those with single-sided deafness.

Going out to the movies can be lots of fun for many people, but it can, at times, be downright stressful for someone with a hearing loss. An unfamiliar location, new voices, and background noise can all lead to not understanding the dialogue in the movie, or conversations with others in the cinema. What we’ll

Meningitis is an inflammation of the meninges, which are the layers that surround the brain and spinal cord. You have menges because they’re supposed to protect your nervous system, but unfortunately sometimes they can do the exact opposite: inflame and damage your nerves.

If you’ve just received a hearing implant there might be a bunch of hearing related terms, words, and definitions that you’re just learning about for the first time. Or even if you’ve had an implant for a while one term that you’re not familiar might just pop up. This can happen when you’re going through