Any child—even one who has a cochlear implant—can learn multiple languages. Here are a few things you can do to help your child with a cochlear implant develop strong language skills in multiple languages.
Following a diagnosis of hearing loss in a child, it is common for families to seek information and advice about how to communicate with their child and support their child’s development. Although some families that choose a cochlear implant for their child may have to wait a while before implantation, their child’s development doesn’t have to wait.
Being socially engaged and making friends in childhood is important for psychological well-being and is positively associated with academic success. Parents of children with hearing implants can support development of their child’s social skills by creating opportunities to build relationships with peers and by practicing these skills in structured situations. Here are some tips to develop your child’s social skills and help them make friends.
We know many of you are facing the challenge of how to continue to develop your child’s listening and language skills at home. But did you know that we have 26 themed lesson kits that can be used to help develop your child’s skills? And best of all, they are free for everyone to use!
Kristian Erickson from Alaska has one big passion: studying foreign languages. But his progressive hearing loss made mastering them increasingly difficult – until he got cochlear implants, that is! Getting hearing implants reopened a whole world of languages for him, something that came in handy when he traveled to MED-EL’s headquarters in Austria. We asked
