What Is a Cochlear Implant? A cochlear implant (CI) is an electronic device designed to help you hear better if you're deaf, partially deaf, or have trouble understanding speech. It has two parts: a ...

• Many deaf people are encouraged to get a cochlear implant. • It's a high-tech medical device that helps the deaf perceive sound. • But these devices aren't as simple as they seem — and they're not a ...

More older adults have turned to cochlear implants after Medicare expanded eligibility for the devices.

This chapter focuses on item 2 in the committee’s Statement of Task: Describe the characteristics of hearing tests, administered in the sound field, either binaurally or monaurally, in either quiet or ...

The results of this study will improve our understanding of aging effects on auditory training benefits, which could inform treatment plans for management of hearing loss. A cochlear implant is an ...

Hearing loss may be caused by interference with the transmission of sound from the outer to the inner ear (conductive hearing loss) or damage within the cochlea, the auditory nerve or auditory centres ...

Older Australians with Cochlear hearing implants are being left without access to critical technology upgrades, prompting a national advocacy campaign.

For more than three decades, Lisa Aubert has helped transform both hearing technology and the lives of the people who depend on it. She began her career at Cochlear in 1994 as an audiologist in Europe ...

"A new adventure of having to get a cochlear implant. I was scared. But once I met Dr. Sweeney and Dr. Schadt, I knew there was nothing to worry about. I have never in my life met such supporting ...