Life with a Hearing Implant
The importance of hearing, everyday problems that come with hearing loss as well as testimonials of hearing implant users – get an insight into life with hearing implant systems here!
Young CI-users and their life
At the EURO-CIU 2024 symposium in Vienna, six teenagers and young adults gave an insight into their everyday lives with CI. As they were implanted as early as possible and well supervised, they live a fully inclusive life and pursue academic careers - just like their peers with normal hearing!
“Hearing the audience is the heart of soccer!”
Introducing soccer player and bilateral CI user Lara Walzer
“There’s nothing to be afraid or ashamed of!”
What a CI user posts on Instagram about her
Our journey towards hearing with a cochlear implant
Cochlear implant for a toddler: the early days according
Chiara and the IDEAS4EARS competition
Young inventiveness among CI users in Austria Seven-year-old
CIA Summer Days – 20th Anniversary
The CIA Summer Days 2023 - the year before
What it’s like to be unilaterally deaf
"Having a cochlear implant in my deaf ear has
Music festival by and for users of cochlear and other hearing implants
The SOUND SENSATION Music Festival - Listening to music
Successful art project for young CI users relaunched
An Open Call for Artistic CI-youth! WaveforMe is
Experience with BONEBRIDGE
This kindergarten teacher is really sensitive to the topic of hearing problems in her pupils, as she herself is hearing impaired on one side and got implanted as a teenager.
Quality of life in the older age
On the beauty of life and dealing with limitations
How to select the right cochlear implant
Dr Christian Schmidt MBA, a father of a child with a CI, describes which factors were decisive for him and his wife when choosing a CI system for their daughter.
Audioversum – experience hearing with all senses
If you take a tour through Innsbruck´s AUDIOVERSUM, you will have the opportunity to enjoy and experience hearing in a completely different way.
Rough travel conditions with a cochlear implant
A 41-year-old Andreas Sondergeld was implanted with a CI on one side at the age of 26.
Traveling with a cochlear implant: a time traveler
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.
Traveling alone with a cochlear implant
How to travel to exotic countries with a cochlear implant?
Traveling with a cochlear implant
A CI user Max Breynck shares his tips on traveling with a cochlear implant with us!
Practising inclusion at school
How well the school will go for children with cochlear implants depends on several factors. The persistence of the parents is one of them.
Audio streaming for CI rehabilitation
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.
Benign tumors can cause malignant problems
After a rare disease called neurofibromatoses that affected her hearing, Elena-Daniela Nistor can hear again thanks to a brainstem implant.
