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
Going out to the movies can be lots of fun for many people, but it can, at times, be downright stressful for someone with a hearing loss. An unfamiliar location, new voices, and background noise can all lead to not understanding the dialogue in the movie, or conversations with others in the cinema. What we’ll
A standard smoke detector’s alarm is loud enough so that everyone should be able to hear it, right? Unfortunately, that’s not the case for lots of people with hearing loss. Most smoke detectors have a very high-frequency fire alarm, which is bad news for most people because it’s the high frequencies that people tend to lose first.
Here’s the third in our four-part miniseries about choosing the right Assistive Listening Device (ALD) depending on what situation you’re in. Our first posts covered listening to music and watching TV, and now we’ll head out to school or work.
A few posts ago we talked a bit about what sound and noise are. Noise can be a big issue for any listener and especially for someone with a cochlear implant.
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