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Personal Story
Thursday, October 9th 2008
A Personal Cochlear Implant Story. Our website at www.healthyhearing.com contains many user stories about successful hearing aid and cochlear implant users. We wanted to share one with you.
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Getting An Implant
Thursday, October 9th 2008
Find out if you are a candidate for a cochlear implant. An evaluation at a cochlear implant center a facility that specializes in cochlear implants can determine if you are a candidate. Cochlear implant treatment has rapidly advanced over the years.
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How CIs Work
Tuesday, September 30th 2008
The sound processor creates a coded signal. The transmitting coil sends a signal wirelessly across the skin. The receiver/stimulator activates the electrodes and stimulates the auditory/hearing nerve. The auditory nerve sends the signal to the brain.
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Severe Hearing Loss Harms Relationships: Survey Reveals Solutions to Fit Any Need
Monday, August 25th 2008
A recent Cochlear' Americas survey reveals what most of us already know. Hearing loss hurts relationships personal, professional all relationships. Spouses feeling negle...
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Bilateral Cochlear Implants: A Fitting Choice for Mother and Daughter
Monday, April 28th 2008
In many ways, Michelle Tjelmeland and her 10-year-old daughter, Ellie, are hearing miracles. With the help of modern technology, they went from the world of total silence to...
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Hearing Journey: Online Listening and Language Activities for Kids
Monday, March 24th 2008
What a great idea. A fabulous idea!The world-wide-web is used for all kinds of things: to buy stuff from the comfort of home, comparison shopping, communicating, research like...
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Cochlear Implants: Graeme Clark Scholarships Announced
Monday, March 17th 2008
This unique award is presented to Nucleus cochlear implant recipients around the world to help defray the costs of higher education.
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Michael Chorost: Cyborg
Monday, September 10th 2007
Imagine this.Youre at a busy airport waiting for your rental car when the sound goes off. Not the sound of your MP3 player or the sounds of speakers announcing arrivals and...
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International Conference Sheds Light on Cochlear Implants in Children
Wednesday, June 20th 2007
A recent international conference on cochlear implants in children used new research data to identify patients who can benefit from the latest breakthroughs in hearing...
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Book Excerpt from Rebuilt: How Becoming Part Computer Made Me More Human
Monday, June 6th 2005
Editor's Note: This is a very unusual event for us. We have not previously published an excerpt from an autobiography. Despite my own personal 21 years experience researching...
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Cochlear Implants: Optimizing Patient Benefit through Team Management and Family-Based Aural Rehabilitation
Monday, December 13th 2004
IntroductionThe professional staff of Dallas Otolaryngology Associates and HEAR In Dallas joined forces to form the Dallas Otolaryngology Associates Cochlear Implant (DOA-CI)...
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The BAHA System Demo
Monday, December 6th 2004
Hear the BAHA System Without ImplantationThe BAHA system is the only implanted treatment for hearing loss that works through direct bone conduction. This unique method of tr...
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No More Excuses: Parts 1, 2 and 3
Monday, August 9th 2004
Editors Note: It has been a joy and a delight to work with Mr. Betty on his adventures from hearing loss, to cochlear implantation, and back to his hearing world. I grateful t...
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My Cochlear Implant Experience
Monday, June 7th 2004
Tacoma, WashingtonCochlear Implant surgery is fairly well known by the surgeons and the audiologists that deal with it all the time. Afterall, cochlear implants have been appr...
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I Was Deaf: Now I Am Learning to Hear Again
Monday, May 17th 2004
How often have you sat in meetings, and even though you didnt hear the joke, laughed because everyone else did? How often have you pretended to hear, when reallythe sounds were...
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The Sounds Are Silent
Monday, May 10th 2004
N. Las Vegas, NevadaIn the year 2000, my life came to a screeching halt. I was suddenly deaf and could not accomplish my daily living tasks as I had done for 50 some years. The...
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Cochlear Implants - Who Are the Candidates?
Monday, May 3rd 2004
Professional Services CoordinatorBionic Ear AssociationAdvanced BionicsSanta Clarita, CAMay is Better Hearing Month and it is, therefore, a perfect time to reflect on the...
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My Cochlear Implant: The Gift
Monday, March 22nd 2004
Getting a cochlear implant was one of the more gratifying things Ive done. It means so much to me to have the implant, and not a day goes by when I dont enjoy it. Ive discovered...
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Children with Cochlear Implants: Where Does Sign Language Fit In?
Monday, March 8th 2004
Cochlear Implant Education CenterLaurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center, Gallaudet UniversityWashington, D.C.Cochlear implant technology provides deaf children with access...
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My Cochlear Implant Adventure
Monday, November 17th 2003
Getting a cochlear implant was not on my list of things to do. Being deaf was as natural as having blue eyes and buying a box of red hair dye. Having gone deaf at 18 old d...
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The Benefits and Limitations of Cochlear Implants
Monday, September 15th 2003
EDITOR's NOTE - I recently learned about the Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center at Gallaudet, and their website titled "Cochlear Implants: Navigating a Forest of...
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Psychosomatic Hearing Loss? My Cochlear Implant Story
Monday, August 25th 2003
I woke up deaf one morning. It was during the Spring of 1971, I was living in Anchorage, Alaska. No warning, no nothing. I a 17 year-old high school student with perfec...
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Cochlear Implants: From the Patient's Perspective
Monday, May 19th 2003
I would like to offer a different view of the cochlear implant experience-based on my perspective, after six years experience wearing a cochlear implant. There are many personal...
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Rising Above Hearing Loss
Monday, March 31st 2003
For 42 years I lived a healthy life. During the winter of 1992, I became very ill. I had a temperature of 103 degrees, strep throat and ear infections. I was treated with...
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Cochlear Implants: My Experience Returning to Human Voices
Monday, March 10th 2003
From the beginning of my discussions about cochlear implants, I thought the greatest benefit would be ''balance'' with regard to hearing. I intended to wear my hearing aid the...
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