Cochlear Implant Information
- You can attend quarterly meetings about new cochlear implant services.
- You can benefit from updates on cochlear implant technology that are provided by cochlear implant manufacturers annually.
- You can stop by for brochures and newsletters from cochlear implant manufacturers and consumer groups.
- You can borrow books, articles, DVDs and videotapes about cochlear implants from our archive.
- You will learn about interesting cochlear implant websites. Communicate via e-mail with other cochlear implant users.
Posing after a meeting
Individualized Communication Instruction
- Get instruction from expert audiologists and speech language pathologists.
- Use computerized training programs.
- Take advantage of a broad range of communication services.
- Benefit from auditory training
- Speech production & pronunciation
- Speechreading & communication strategies practice
- Vocabulary development
- Telephone practice
- And any other communication activity you are interested in learning
Listening and responding to a computerized auditory training program
Communication Studies and Services Clinical Services
- Follow-up audiological testing for cochlear implant teams
- Monitoring cochlear implant benefit
- Assisting with mapping/programming of implants
- Troubleshooting equipment and assisting with repairs
- Stocking cochlear implant cords & microphones
- Demonstrating and loaning assistive listening devices and patch cords for coupling cochlear implants to external devices (etc. Walkman, TV, CD, wireless telephones)
- Consultations for cochlear implant candidacy and referrals
Learning how to use a
FM system with her cochlear implant
Contact Communication Studies and Services Department at cccnca@rit.edu,
Visit the Speech & Language Learning & Practice Lab
(SLLPL) or Contact the Hearing Aid Shop for an appointment