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What is life at a distance actually like for people with hearing impairments?

Many hearing-impaired people use lip-reading for communication - the obligatory mouth and nose masks are a barrier.

Cochlear implants for single-sided deafness are promising for adults and children alike

Even users who received their first cochlear implant years ago may benefit from bilateral implantation.

An insight into why binaural hearing and music complement each other, lead to better speech understanding and why together is better than alone.

To reach maximum benefit with a second cochlear implant, users should pursue regular training, like they did with their first CI.

Brigitte is so satisfied with her cochlear implant that she now wants one for her other ear.  It was not always like this.

Sabine Weinberger-Pramendorfer is extremely satisfied cochlear implant user and wants to encourage candidates to go for it.

For seven years, 13-year-old Valentin from Austria could only hear in one ear. While his hearing loss remained undetected for a long time...

Hobby musician Walter Widler (CI user) talks about his life-long passion for music.