Lots of rehabilitation exercises focus on developing language, speaking, and listening skills. These are all important skills for spoken communication, but there’s more that can be done with sound and rehabilitation. Engaging with music or playing an instrument adds more. It partially builds on some of the skills taught in rehabilitation—like understanding pitch, loudness, and
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
It doesn’t matter who you are, where you’re from, or what your interests are. Listening to music is one of those universal experiences that almost everyone can enjoy—even if you have a cochlear implant. Listening to Music “Listening to music” isn’t just one single term or idea. There are lots of different aspects that come
We’ve talked about how musical sounds can help to teach language to your child, and here are two more ways that you can build these skills: with rhymes and songs. When playing these games it can help to use child-directed speech; because child-directed speech helps you talk to your child and share important information, in a
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