Lost and Found: My Cochlear Implant Life

" IF you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt yo...

When I get together with friends and family, they are always curious about my progress with my cochlear implant. How are things going? Are...

"What's that noise?" my husband asks casually as we are driving to the airport. "What noise? I don't hear anythin...

“We have two ears for a reason,” said Jill B. Firszt, PhD, associate professor, audiologist and director of the Cochlear Implant Program in ...

FM: aka Frequency Modulator; a system for sending radio signals in which the number of radio waves per second is changed in order to send in...

That's the word my surgeon used to describe my hair. "Your hair is very prolific," he said as he was extracting an infected ...

Programming a cochlear implant is tedious, time consuming, and exhausting. It involves being hooked up to the audiologist's computer and...