As Helenka's mother, I would like to tell you about our experiences with her impaired hearing and her passion for snowboarding. Helenka is 11 and she has had two cochlear implants for a decade.
Hearing devices, such as hearing aids and audio processors, are not only valuable but also very costly. For children with hearing impairments, these devices are crucial in daily communication and learning.
SmartEar has collaborated with Disney to offer children a range of stickers for hearing devices that feature beloved Disney characters. Children will be given the opportunity to personalise their hearing devices with
A guide for swimming with cochlear implants.
Vacation is the most marvelous time in the whole year, but an audio processor is also a marvel… of technology! Cochlear implants are prosthetic devices which substitute natural hearing.
I am a mom. If you are too you surely know how challenging it is.I am a mom of a deaf child. That’s a one-level-up challenge. My second daughter, Helena, was born in 2012. I clearly remember the day when she was undergoing a mandatory hearing test in the hospital and the device kept displaying: TO BE CHECKED.
When, after giving birth to my little girl, I got to know she’s deaf my life lapsed. I couldn’t face up to this, I didn’t believe the final diagnosis, I didn’t want to listen to anything that the doctor was saying to me.