Adult CI: Beginning Practice Listening Suggestions at Home

Simple Practice Suggestions at Home

Immediately after your activation get started learning to listen with your cochlear implant. 

Begin listening with a close friend or a family member who wants to be your Listening Coach:

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1: Follow along as your Listening Coach reads a passage in a book.

Ask your reader to stop at certain words, so you can speak the words out loud. After this exercise, have him/her randomly read any sentence in a paragraph, so you can guess which sentence it was.

2: Without relying on speech-reading, have your Listening Coach voice

            Names of people you know

            Simple sentences: "How are you?" or "Nice to meet you."

3: Listen to basic "read-along" children's books available on CDs at the library.

Work up to more challenging literature as your training progress.

4: Listen to public radio or sports radio.

Talk shows are a good source of practice because they often deal with current news or familiar topics – giving you clues about the gist of conversation.

Be sure to prompt your Listening Coach to –

"speak slowly and clearly...

 use short sentences...stay on topic, etc."