Listening Room
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The Listening room is an online website providing FREE information and activities for teenagers and adults.
The Listening Room is divided into two main sections.
The Listening Playbook provides current information about rehabilitation, how to connect and care for your cochlear implant and information on how to manage your acoustic environment.
The Listening Gym provides free listening activities available interactively using your own personal computer and are downloadable onto a Video MP3 player or an iPod
Teenagers and adults can select from 6 topics:
- Conversation Practice
- Discrimination Activities
- Making the Connection Workbook
- Music Appreciation
- Speech Tracking Exercises
- Telephone Practice
Aim
The pages for teenagers and adults will help teenagers and adults learning to listen with their cochlear implant. Teaching your brain to listen again through a cochlear implant takes commitment, perseverance, and a positive attitude.The Listening Playbook is designed to provide you with the basic principles of rehabilitation and resources to help you maximise your success with a cochlear implant. Teenagers and adults can choose from these 5 topics to begin their rehabilitation journey:
- Maximizing your CI
- Listening Strategies
- Advocacy
- Idea Share
- Library
Part of the journey to hearing with a cochlear implant is understanding the sounds in your environment. Every cochlear implant recipient will require some form of "listening practice" and the Listening Gym is designed to help facilitate this transition to a new world of sound. Teenager and adult users can choose from these 6 topics below to begin re-connecting to sound with their cochlear implant:
- Conversation Practice
- Discrimination Activities
- Making the Connection Workbook
- Music Appreciation
- Speech Tracking Exercises
- Telephone Practice
Target Groups
- Teenagers
- Adults
