Teresa Caraway, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, LSL Cert. AVT, Chief Executive Officer at the Oberkotter Foundation, has been awarded the ...

A national trial to explore the benefits of giving deaf adults double cochlear implants could be "utterly life changing", ...

A cochlear implant is an electronic device implanted in the ear's inner side to improve speech understanding. It does not restore hearing; rather, it enhances it. A cochlear implant specialist can ...

Radio Head Gal is both the alter-ego of TED speaker Rebecca Knill and the name of her new memoir. In it, she documents her life as a deaf person before and after she received cochlear implants. In ...

University of Birmingham researchers support new LUCIA trial that will assess the impact of bilateral cochlear implants on deaf adults.

Cochlear implants help improve hearing for individuals with profound hearing loss. Medicare covers cochlear implants for individuals who meet eligibility requirements. Cochlear implants help people ...

Hearing loss doesn't just affect how people hear the world - it can also change how they connect with it. A new study from the USC Caruso Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, part of ...

A woman with a rare condition that causes hearing- and vision-loss lit up when a cochlear implant was activated in one of her ...

The decision to place cochlear implants in both ears at the same time in young children may better shape brain development ...

Walter Vidal Contreras Robles sat excitedly in the small waiting room of UNLV’s otolaryngology clinic with a bright smile on his face the morning of May 30. It was his 37th birthday, and instead of ...