Chuckie is the recipient of a MED-EL cochlear implant. He lost his hearing due to meningitis when he was just 1 year old. Read how finally getting implanted helped fulfil his dream of being a police officer.
Last week we posted an article showing why your hearing aids might not work like you remember, and now we’ve got a first-hand story from someone whose hearing aids weren’t enough to treat her hearing loss. So what did she do then? Read on… My hearing loss was inherited from my mother’s side of the
Note: this is the second guest article from MED-EL cochlear implant recipient Magteld Smith. In her first post she introduced herself and talked about how her mother helped her to succeed in spite of her congenital deafness. Magteld has since gone on to spend 20 years researching how to give more people with deafness and hearing
Claire Stancliffe says: In my last article I explained and described about my switch on. I thought I would use my next article to talk about the new sounds I have heard since I had the implant done and what sounds different to before. On my way home after the switch-on I decided to put some
If you’ve recently received a cochlear implant, the first few months will be filled with lots of new experiences and changes. That’s because your brain is learning how to interpret the information it receives from a cochlear implant.
This is the second post from Claire Stancliffe, a MED-EL cochlear implant recipient. In her last post she introduced her childhood with hearing loss and now her cochlear implant story continues with the first months after she received a cochlear implant. First of all, I would like to say a big thank you if you
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