Back in the loop

Follow Daniela's simultaneous bilateral cochlear implant journey back to the hearing world.

"Blindness separates us from things but deafness separates us from people." (Helen Keller)

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Thursday, 25 August 2011

Me? Deaf? Oh yeah, that's right.

Was it only last year that I used to deliberately seek out strangers so I could practise my listening skills? Wow. All I need to do n...

Tuesday, 21 June 2011

Just how loud can our little boy cry?

* Loud enough for two different nurses in neighbouring ICU units to come rushing in to his room at the Children’s Hospital one night ...

Wednesday, 8 June 2011

NICU babies and hearing

A visit to a different audiology clinic this week – the one at the Royal Children’s Hospital. Our son passed his newborn hearing ...

Friday, 3 June 2011

Out of (brain) practice

So … it’s wonderful to be able to play the piano again but I have to confess something. I did not have a grand “oh-wow-this-sounds-am...

Wednesday, 1 June 2011

Hypnosis with cochlear implants?

I was watching a documentary on SBS the other night about the way brain research has evolved over time. There was a segment on hypnos...

Monday, 30 May 2011

Do your dreams have sounds?

It's a question that is often asked to deaf people. For late-deafened people like me, people often ask if our dreams stopped feat...

Friday, 27 May 2011

The sounds of our baby boy

I always knew that getting cochlear implants would help me hear, and therefore respond faster, to my baby crying. Little did I know t...

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