Thanks to continued efforts by hardworking students at the Island High Fab Lab, more children from the Deaf/Hard of Hearing Program have received personalized teddy bears with cochlear implant transmitters.

https://alamedapost.com/news/fab-lab-students-create-cochlear-implants-for-kids-toys/

#FabLab #alameda #HearingDevice #CochlearImplants #IslandHighSchool #CochlearImplantTransmitters

I did not know this was a thing. Corporations effectively disabling your phone or your washing machine to force you to buy a new one is bad enough. Doing the same with your ears is disgusting. Especially if you didn't advise that this would happen before installation, and marketed it as "forever". Yet another "How do these people sleep at night?" moment.

https://www.sapiens.org/culture/planned-obsolescence-cochlear-implants/

#plannedobsolescence #deaf #hearing #cochlearimplants #righttorepair

They have cochlear implants for people who can't hear but want to. When is someone going to invent an auditory off switch for people who can hear but don't want to. Autistic people, people with misophonia, or even just someone who likes to be able to read in peace from time to time would benefit.

I would be willing to pay a lot of money for something like that. Ear plugs and ear muffs don't cut it by themselves, and they cause me other forms of suffering like pain or ear infections if I overuse them.

@neurodivergent
@actuallyautistic

#ActuallyAutistic
#Misophonia
#HearingAids
#CochlearImplants
#AuditoryProcessingDisorder
#NoisePollution
#Hearing
#VoluntaryHearingLoss

POMA
Adult cochlear implant users make listener-oriented articulatory adjustments to facilitate intelligibility of their own #speech. https://doi.org/10.1121/2.0001731

#acoustics #CochlearImplants

JASA EXPRESS LETTERS
How does interaural frequency mismatch affect sentence recognition in bilateral cochlear-implant listeners?
https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0017705

#acoustics #hearing #CochlearImplants

ACOUSTICS TODAY
Cochlear implants are the most successful sensory prosthetics available. When should a person get one? https://doi.org/10.1121/AT.2023.19.1.37

#acoustics #hearing #CochlearImplants

Um, ok. #TV #tech #health #hearing #cochlea #cochlearImplants
https://www.engadget.com/amazon-fire-tv-devices-can-now-stream-audio-directly-to-cochlear-hearing-implants-133039687.html

I wanna be deaf somethimes, y'know?

#CochlearImplants #DeafMastodon #Deaf #CIMastodon

Hey #DeafMastodon , do any of you have any recommended resources on learning American Sign Language? (#ASL 🇺🇸)

As an user of #CochlearImplants in my early childhood, I've never had the opportunity to learn well any kind of sign language, and honestly I think it would help me so much at least in US communicating areas.

(Recommendations for Argentine sign language are OK too! It would help me more. #Argentina 🇦🇷)

There's an article on something I was thinking about for a while: https://haamurajalla.medium.com/cochlear-implant-a-blessing-and-a-curse-5348f3affa26

Also dad needs to stop telling me to not take out my hearing aid. I hear when I want unless it's an emergency.

#CochlearImplants #Ableism #Deaf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFBcrwQGTLE #HearingAids #CochlearImplants

Why #CochlearImplants work almost immediately for some people but can take years for others. I find these implants fascinating as I used to live next to some kids who had them installed. #Brains https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04553-z

Why #CochlearImplants work almost immediately for some people but can take years for others. I find these implants fascinating as I used to live next to some kids who had them installed. #Brains https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04553-z

@cath_finch hi Catherine in Wales. John in the US and fellow Bilateral CI recipient. Just wanted to say streaming music to my CIs rocks for me as well. J

#cochlearimplants, #deaf

Major gripe with #iOS and my #cochlearimplants

If I have one of them off or dead, or really in any state where it’s not reachable from my phone, iOS refuses to stream any audio whatsoever to the other one. If I take one off and turn it off while streaming, it continues just fine with the one remaining, so this is clearly just a software lock in iOS. Beyond stupid. Given #Youtube captions no longer work on Invidious, it makes it very inconvenient to watch my wind down videos.

It's been an emotional day today. If you have a minute to read a very very short post, it will explain why here. Much love to all who can't hear well. #cochlearimplants #deafness
https://untipsyteacher.com/2022/12/01/sounds-of-silence/

Okay I’m looking at my old #introduction and realizing I missed a lot, so I’m just gonna redo this. Enjoy my #reintroduction.

Hi I’m Zero (they/them). I’m your local #enby #cyborg (if you live in #Alberta #Canada that is)

You’ll find me posting here about anything that interests me, from #politics (#communist) to #religion (#atheist), #gaming (#SatisfactoryGame and #Rimworld), #programming (#rustlang), #sysadmin (#debian ftw) and #LGBT topics. also #deaf with #cochlearimplants

See you around!

Usher Syndrome causes varying degrees of progressive deafness and blindness. Many, many advances in diagnosis, remediation, and treatments have improved the outlook for newly diagnosed individuals (including #CochlearImplants for hearing) in recent decades, but there’s no effective treatment for the vision loss yet. Progress with #CRISPR #GeneTherapy #Optogenetics and other areas is impressive and will undoubtedly lead to effective treatments.

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Welcome new and old! Instead of the usual mini bio that you can read on my profile anyway, let me introduce you to Usher Syndrome, the “leading” cause of deaf blindness and an unwelcome part of my family.

Usher Syndrome causes varying degrees of progressive deafness and blindness. Many, many advances in diagnosis, remediation, and treatments have improved the outlook for newly diagnosed individuals (including #CochlearImplants for hearing) in recent decades, but there’s no effective treatment for the vision loss yet. Progress with #CRISPR #GeneTherapy #Optogenetics and other areas is impressive and will undoubtedly lead to effective treatments.

#Twitter and social media in general have been key tools in assembling the community for education, fundraising, study recruitment and research. Hopefully #Mastodon can become another tool we use.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usher_syndrome

https://www.usher-syndrome.org/

https://www.usher1f.org/

Also we have a #cat and #rabbit :-)

#introduction #introductions #ff #FollowFriday #UsherSyndrome

I have an Eiger pile of recycling, laundry & housework to face this morning.. I shall stop procrastinating, turn my CIs into headphones and create a soundtrack called ‘just get on with it’. So let’s give the chores the ‘Best of My Love’. #SoulMusic #TheEmotions #CochlearImplants #Motivation

https://youtu.be/B-Tb80rmPt4