What do you do if your child is born profoundly deaf but can’t have a cochlear implant? For 5-year-old Louie from New Zealand, this was exactly the case. Louie was born without auditory nerves, making him unsuitable for a cochlear implant. But his family didn’t give up. Instead, they decided to get
Most types of hearing loss are due to something happening between the outer ear and cochlea. Sensorineural hearing loss, conductive hearing loss, and mixed hearing loss are all examples of a hearing loss that is due to something happening in or before the cochlea. However, there are also types of hearing loss due to something
You might know that a cochlear implant sends electrical signals to the cochlea, but have you ever wondered where they go from there? They go straight into the brain! How the Brain Hears As we’ve shown in our post showing pictures of the cochlea, the cochlea is filled with thousands of nerve cells. Each of these cells
