Category: CI evaluation

Gulp! First Visit to a New Audiologist

Gael Hannan 4 Comments Audiologist and client relationship / Audiologists / CI evaluation / Cochlear Implants / Communicating with Hearing Loss / Hyperacusis / Stress and hearing loss / Tinnitus

Today, I met with a new audiologist for the first time.  Well, she’s not a new audiologist…she’s been practicing for a while.  But she was new to me, and as I took the ferry to Vancouver from Victoria, I was nervous because there was a lot riding on this visit.  “Breaking in” a new hearing…

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Tina Gets a CI

Gael Hannan 4 Comments Adjusting to cochlear implants / Assistive Technology / CI evaluation / Cochlear Implants / Communicating with Hearing Loss / Dr. Beth Wilson / Families affected by hearing loss / Spousal adjustment to hearing loss / Tina Thompson / Tinnitus

Editor’s Note: A person’s hearing loss has a powerful impact on family members, especially spouses. But what if both partners have a hearing loss? My good friends Tina Thompson and Dr. Beth Wilson share a moving and humorous account of the early days of Tina’s cochlear implant in 2014.   By Tina Thompson and Beth Wilson…

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