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Misdiagnosed as autistic, Grzegorz Płonka spent most of his childhood in a school for children with mental disabilities and was unable to speak. This changed when he got diagnosed with profound [...]

After cochlear implant activation, hearing your child say their first word is one of the early but powerful milestones along their hearing journey. But getting to that first word takes time, [...]

Welcome back to our Rehab at Home for Adults series where you can learn how to reach everyday listening goals and improve your hearing. Today’s goal is about overhearing conversation.

Erika from Italy was born deaf, as was her son Kevin, and it took her 40 years to get a cochlear implant. Together with her son, she is now working on rehabilitation and getting used to the world [...]

Our Rehab at Home for Adults series focuses on one everyday listening goal at a time. This time it’s all about understanding conversations in quiet environments.

Meet Olivia Castro Cranwell, an Argentinian and French artist who lives and works in Buenos Aires. She is one of the four artists who designed our limited-edition audio processor covers. In this [...]

Read about how Alessia Florea moved to Italy to live her artistic dream, despite being unable to hear. Now one of our four limited-edition design cover artists, Alessia tells us how she lost her [...]

Meet Freddy Rode, one of the four artists behind our latest design covers. As a bilateral cochlear implant user, Freddy is proud to have designed a cover that CI users all over the world will [...]

Chella Man is a 23-year-old American artist, actor, model, and disabled and LGBTQ+ educator and speaker. He uses social media to talk about his personal experiences with gender dysphoria and [...]

Welcome back to our Rehab at Home series. As always, this blog is designed to help you reach an everyday listening goal, so that you can get the most out of your cochlear implant. Today’s goal is [...]