A Journey Shaped by Hearing Loss “I was born with severe-to-profound hearing loss of unknown origin. From a very young age, I wore two hearing aids but at age eight, I decided to keep just one in my right ear—my left ear has no hearing. For a long time, I tried to downplay my communication … Continued
“Kathy and I met in August of 1979 and were married a year later. Over the next decade, we welcomed three children—two sons and a daughter. We both valued and pursued education. Kathy became a nurse and worked part-time when the kids were in school. As they grew older, she gained more experience and put … Continued
“My journey with hearing loss came unexpectedly, without warning, at a time that could not have been worse. In November 2022, a serious, life-threatening virus unexpectedly thrust me into a world where I could barely walk, and my vision and hearing were severely impaired. I spent 20 days in an intensive care facility while doctors … Continued
“My name is Mathilde, and I am a 24-year-old bilateral cochlear implant user from Denmark. I was born with profound sensorineural hearing loss and received my cochlear implants when I was 2 and 6 years old. At that time, I could only receive one cochlear implant, so I traveled to Sweden to get my second … Continued
“Before our daughter, Brynn, was born in 2008, we were already concerned about her hearing. Though we are a hearing couple with no history of deafness in our respective families, our son, Jevin, who was born a few years prior with single-sided deafness, had repeatedly failed his newborn hearing screening in one ear. Many doctor … Continued
“I was born deaf in my right ear. My parents did a lot of diagnostic and genetic testing when I was a baby, but my doctors could not find a cause for the deafness. I received a CT, and it showed that the anatomy of my inner ear is completely normal, which surprised me. My … Continued
Upgradeable Firmware: The Cochlear™ Nucleus® Nexa™ System features upgradeable firmware on the implant – an industry first, allowing recipients to access future innovation through firmware updates. Smallest Sound Processor: The new Nucleus 8 Nexa Sound Processor, with the new Power Compact rechargeable battery, is the smallest sound processor with all day battery life# on the … Continued
“Until age 5, Lyla was just like every other kid her age. She had just finished pre-K with the excitement of kindergarten looming in the fall and a fun summer planned. During preschool, it was mentioned that she should be evaluated for speech services. We knew Lyla had some speech intelligibility and services were approved … Continued
“In September 2022, I was going through Covid for the third time. Covid had just become a part of my family’s normal process. I worked as a nightshift police supervisor for a medium sized town in Washington State. When the rest of the world was sheltering in place we went into people’s homes to settle … Continued
NEW Baha® 7 Sound Processor: First in bone conduction to enable Bluetooth® LE Audio and Auracast™ broadcast audio streaming capabilities1,2. NEW Baha SoundBand™: Improved look and fitting options over current Baha Softband to help children with hearing loss thrive. NEW Bluetooth™ LE Audio Accessories: AutoStreaming, LE Audio functionality, and updated design. NEW Baha Fitting Software … Continued
“We welcomed our son Augustine in mid-2022. He was our first son after two daughters and we were completely enamored with him and still are. He was born hearing, healthy and ready for an active life at our home in Puerto Rico. A couple months in we realized he had more health questions than we … Continued
“My name is Randy and I live in Colorado. I have had profound hearing loss in both ears that started 44 years ago, due to working underground with high noise levels. I started wearing hearing aids 43 years ago. The last four years my hearing loss progressed significantly. My word recognition and ability to understand … Continued
Protect your hearing Reduce the time and level of exposure to loud sounds by using ear protection in loud environments such as concerts, sporting events, racetrack, or noisy hobbies. Visit Deafness and hearing loss: Safe listening for more. Use your devices wisely Use the built-in safe listening feature on your devices and use noise cancelling … Continued
“I received my Cochlear Osia System in July of 2021. I can honestly say that getting the Osia System is the best decision I have ever made. Living a life without a hearing solution I lived over 35 years with single-sided deafness without a solution. When I was diagnosed in the early 1980’s, I was … Continued
“’Trust the process’ is what cochlear implant recipients are often told from the beginning to end of the surgical, activation and hearing adjustment process. If I had to sum up my experience of becoming a bilateral cochlear implant recipient in just a few words, those words would be ‘trust the process.’ How my journey to … Continued
“I grew up in a family of hearing loss. Every paternal male member of my family that I can recall had low-frequency bilateral sensorineural hearing loss and used hearing aids. I should have been prepared for what was to come, but when I took my first professional job in my late 20s, I was still … Continued
“Hello! I am the proud mama to two of the sweetest children. I wanted to share my son Jack’s story. Jack, who recently turned 6, was diagnosed at birth with sensorineural hearing loss in his right ear (he doesn’t have the little hairs that vibrate to make sound for the brain to process and make … Continued
“In 2015 I started losing my hearing; I started noticing things around me sounding different. Things like people talking and their voices sounding muffled. I would be watching television and it seemed really low, so I would turn it up not realizing it was super loud. Family members would tell me ‘Mone (my nickname) you … Continued
Meet the Experts The first expert that we interviewed was Daniel Rhodin, MEng Phys, Senior Product Manager for the Osia System, followed by Ivan Gonzalez, BA, MBA, Global Product Manager for Osia Implants & Surgery. Ivan is a Cochlear™ Baha® Attract System user since 2016. What was the vision behind the Osia System? Daniel Rhodin: … Continued
“We found out that Adrian has hearing loss when she was about to turn 4 years old. She has bilateral conductive hearing loss with her right as severe and her left as moderate. Having hearing loss caused her speech to be delayed and hard to understand. Even with speech therapy, we did not see much … Continued
“I am a proud bilateral cochlear implant recipient using Cochlear’s hearing solutions. I was medically diagnosed with sensorineural hearing loss in both ears when I turned 3-years-old. What caused my hearing loss was and is still unknown today. My hearing loss journey I was a hearing aid user until I was 6 years old. My … Continued