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It’s official. Music training helps you get the most out of your cochlear implant. And we’re not just talking about music enjoyment. Music training can help you understand conversations in noisy [...]

Music isn’t just fun. It’s also a great way to help your child learn and develop communication, listening, language, cognitive, fine and gross motor, social, and emotional skills. And research [...]

After surgery and recovery, it’s time for the exciting next step in your hearing journey—activating your implant. This is a time that can be both exciting and a little scary. Everyone’s [...]

Looking forward to dining out now restaurants are back in business? Background noise in restaurants and cafes can make conversation difficult. Here are five ways to make it easier for hearing [...]

It’s never too early to start reading with your child! Reading books with your child from infancy will support their listening, speech, language and literacy skills to develop. Talking about the [...]

What do Katy Perry’s “Roar”, The Beatles’ “Here Comes the Sun”, Wham’s “Last Christmas” and Beethoven’s “Für Elise” have in common? They all made it to a MED-EL Spotify playlist! The MED-EL [...]

Learning songs and rhymes is important for children with hearing loss not only for developing language skills but also thinking skills, physical and social and emotional maturity and even early [...]

Listening to audiobooks and podcasts can be a great way to work on your listening skills with your hearing implant. Not sure where to start? In this post, we will share some tips for using [...]

With online meetings and phone calls, working from home can be a challenge compared to working in an office, especially for cochlear implant recipients. But technology like video calls and [...]

Did you enjoy our Word Search activity last month? Here is another listening activity to make practice a little more fun! In previous blogs, we have talked about active, structured listening [...]