Articles on Cochlear Implants

Thirty years ago this month, Australian cochlear pioneer Graeme Clark surgically implanted his first multichannel cochlear device. Since then, more than 220,000 lives have been changed by this technology.

If hearing aids haven’t improved your ability to hear effectively, ask your hearing health professional if you’re a candidate for a cochlear implant.

Cochlear Americas announces the first rehabilitation App developed by an implantable hearing solutions manufacturer – the Cochlear HOPE Words App.

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.

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.

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.

A recent Cochlear' Americas survey reveals what most of us already know. Hearing loss hurts relationships personal, professional all relationships. Spouses feeling negle...

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...

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...

This unique award is presented to Nucleus cochlear implant recipients around the world to help defray the costs of higher education.

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...

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...

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...

IntroductionThe professional staff of Dallas Otolaryngology Associates and HEAR In Dallas joined forces to form the Dallas Otolaryngology Associates Cochlear Implant (DOA-CI)...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Professional Services CoordinatorBionic Ear AssociationAdvanced BionicsSanta Clarita, CAMay is Better Hearing Month and it is, therefore, a perfect time to reflect on the...

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...

Cochlear Implant Education CenterLaurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center, Gallaudet UniversityWashington, D.C.Cochlear implant technology provides deaf children with access...

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...

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...

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...