I booked a third AVT session (Auditory Verbal Therapy) and Rashed came along to watch. My therapist Jacqueline took me through the Ling 6 sounds, saying each sound and repeating it, then giving me pairs, then sets of three. I was fine with AH, SH, S, but I got confused with the set of EE, MM, and OO. Need more practice!
I had my 3 month review of my second cochlear implant today. It’s looking good and they’ve booted me out until September next year as my maps are stable and both ears are balanced. Sounds seem more solid with my left cochlear implant compared to my right, because this is the older implant with a learning gap between them of 18 months.
My hearing was tested and I have got exactly what my audiologist wants to see for bilateral hearing, an average of -20db.
Advanced Bionics is thrilled to announce that the NEPTUNE™ sound processor has received FDA approval in the United States.
Today is a momentous day for us all. You have all been anxiously awaiting this moment and it has finally arrived! Now AB recipients and candidates have the choice of a Neptune or Harmony sound processor for hearing their best with AB.
Martha Steele
This article appeared in Bird Observer Vol.39, No.5, October 2011. Reproduced with kind permission.
This is a personal story about my journey through stages of birding defined by progressive vision loss and hearing challenges. I have Usher syndrome, an inherited disease that combines retinitis pigmentosa (RP) and hearing loss. RP is characterized by a progression of night blindness, increasing peripheral field loss (tunnel vision), and finally central vision loss, all the result of the retina’s rods and cones dying off. The rate of vision loss varies from person to person, with some individuals nearly completely blind by early adulthood while others have some functional central vision for life. Hearing loss seems to be relatively stable in Usher, although some progressive loss occurs.
Sometimes hearing people take things so much for granted they don’t actually notice what they’re hearing.
The other day the Bear and I were out on a shopping trip in the beautiful city of Bath – full of independent shops and very nice branches of the chain stores, and not one but TWO independent bookshops (Mr B’s Emporium of Reading Delights and Topping’s). You name it, you can get it in Bath …
I wondered if you have any experience of Meniere’s Disease and it’s effect on a cochlear implant. I have had my implant for 3 years now but just recently it is struggling with fluctuating levels.
Do you or any of your readers know of someone having a concussion after being implanted? My adult son was implanted 4 years ago…
A serious post will follow and is being lovingly crafted in the ether, but for now, I just have to share this with you. My linguistic antennae often twitch when I see an interesting magazine or newspaper – one of the things I love about browsing in London newspaper shops is the sheer variety of reading matter in various languages, and if I go on holiday somewhere I always get a copy of a local newspaper, even if I don’t understand a word. It gives me a feel for the place.
Advanced Bionics cochlear implant components are quietly getting smaller with improvements. I took a photo of my older implant’s magnet (blue cap) alongside my newer implant’s magnet (purple cap). The magnet is smaller as you can see on the right, it’s about half the thickness of the older magnet.
