The effects of deafblindness vary depending on the degree of vision or hearing loss but can impact communication, mobility, and access to information. It is therefore imperative that teachers and healthcare professionals adopt a collaborative approach to ensure the best outcomes while addressing the diverse needs of individuals within this population.
Music plays a significant role in our social connectiveness and quality of life. While adults typically receive hearing implants to aid spoken communication, music appreciation is also important.
The MED-EL Adult Rehabilitation Kits (ARKs) offer guidance to professionals to provide hearing implant rehabilitation to adult recipients. In this article, we are sharing the final Adult Rehabilitation Kit (ARK) in our series. This resource contains a lesson plan, complete with suggestions for goals and activities. The kit also includes resources and ready-to-use handouts for
Offering effective rehabilitation sessions to users of hearing technology helps them develop confidence hearing with their listening device(s). MED-EL’s Adult Rehabilitation Kits (ARKs) target listening as well as cognitive and communication skills. Not only are they easy for hearing professionals to use but they also include everything required for an effective cochlear implant rehabilitation session.
We have received positive feedback from hearing professionals using our Adult Rehabilitation Kits to provide auditory rehabilitation in clinical settings. There is growing evidence to support a focus on auditory rehabilitation post cochlear implantation. A 2020 state-of-the-art review concluded that auditory training is a valid tool to support auditory rehabilitation for individuals with hearing loss,
Auditory working memory is the process of remembering and working with sounds previously heard and no longer present in the environment . As auditory information is received, it must be processed and stored for use as needed. Working memory serves as an interface between perception, long-term memory, and action . This process is key to
