Explore the world of hearing implants!
If you take a tour through Innsbruck´s AUDIOVERSUM, you will have the opportunity to enjoy and experience hearing in a completely different way.
A 41-year-old Andreas Sondergeld was implanted with a CI on one side at the age of 26.
As Octavia Carnuntina, she deals with different historical period in her role-play games, as a costume dresser and in Playmobile theater. As Andrea Höller, she usually travels around Great Britain, with her two cochlear implants.
When new parents receive the diagnosis "profound hearing loss" in their child, they are usually shocked. But thanks to the latest medical technology and cochlear implants, there is a solution for it!
A CI user Max Breynck shares his tips on traveling with a cochlear implant with us!
The results with hearing implants and with conventional hearing aids are constantly improving and the limits of use of these different systems are in a constant change.
How well the school will go for children with cochlear implants depends on several factors. The persistence of the parents is one of them.
While university professor Dr.Florian Eibensteiner was suffering from unilateral deafness which resulted from mumps disease, one of his former students was developing better connection options for CI audio processors.
Hearing loss can make a lasting impact on the quality of life and even trigger depression. Adequate hearing aids or hearing implants can help and counteract this. A recent study from the UK shows even a previously unknown economic correlation.
