People wearing cochlear implants
Region: Thüringen
When powerful hearing aids are not (anymore) sufficient to understand speech, i. e. severely hearing impaired as well as borderline deaf and deaf adults and children can perceive sounds but cannot understand speech, the CI (cochlear implant) may be able to help.
The CI is an electronic inner ear prosthesis that replaces the function of the damaged inner ear (cochlea=cochlea) by converting sound into electronic impulses like the latter and transmitting them to the auditory nerve.
The implant is inserted into the bone behind the ear under general anesthesia. A thin electrode is advanced directly into the inner ear and excites the auditory nerve. Sound is processed in the speech processor, a device to be worn on the ear.
Goals and tasks
In our self-help group, all hearing-impaired people, relatives, friends and parents with hearing-impaired children who would like to know more about the cochlear implant can get answers to their questions. We arrange contacts to other affected persons, offer information events about the CI, about accessory technology, about the severely handicapped ID card, etc. Common leisure time activities allow listening exercises, testing your own “understanding level”, contacting hearing people...
Our self-help group has its own ring line with microphones for indoor events and a personal guidance system for mobile events - such as city tours, sightseeing. We enable deaf people or people who have become deaf and now have a CI to gradually participate in life again and to do listening exercises in the form of guided tours and conversations.
Group meetings
- At least four times a year, further meetings as needed/problems arise
- Everyone who wishes to do so receives the invitation with all important details
Contact
Mrs Antje Noack Am Schönblick 17 99448 Kranichfeld
Mobile: 0151 15 75 82 33