16-year-old CI user Irem from Turkey got her first cochlear implant when she was only 13 months old. Her second CI followed at the age of 9. In this article, Irem tells us all about her experience with bilateral cochlear implants, what challenges she had to overcome, and what she thinks of her decision today.
For 10 years, Mariia lived with bilateral sensorineural hearing loss, relying only on hearing aids. At the age of 27, she finally decided to get a cochlear implant. After some speech training, Mariia’s life improved personally and professionally. In this article, she tells us all about her experience with her CI and how it supports her in her job as neuroscientist and science journalist.
Multilingualism is a great asset for children with cochlear implants, especially if they grow up in families in which multiple languages are spoken. Today, more and more families are embracing multilingualism, most commonly bilingualism. This article highlights the benefits of bilingualism and offers tips to help your child with a CI learn two (or more) languages.
If you have a cochlear implant, you know that there are many ways to hear sound and connect to the world around you. One recent development is Auracast broadcasting technology. Find out how your cochlear implants can tune in to these broadcasts.
Educators of students with hearing loss should aim to offer all the support needed so these students can experience success and achieve their full potential at school. Educators play a vital part in ensuring access to classroom instruction and activities as well as integration and participation in the broader life at school for students with hearing devices.
Taiane works as a nurse—thanks to the natural hearing provided by her BONEBRIDGE bone conduction implants, her ability to communicate with her patients and coworkers is not limited by her hearing loss. She lost her hearing in one ear when she was four years old. At the age of 16, she began losing hearing in her other ear and realized her hearing loss couldn’t go untreated any longer. And now nothing stands in the way of her doing what she loves.
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