Forward Focus

August 30th,

I wanted to write a quick note before I forget. USE FORWARD FOCUS! I was in a workshop for teachers today. There was mainly one speaker. I decided to use the FORWARD FOCUS app on my nucleus 7 smart app on my iphone. It is under the program tab. It works so well!!! It brings the speaker's voice to my cochlear implants. I heard her with no problem at all. I will be definitely using this feature in future meetings.


The other tidbit I wanted to share was this. A fellow teacher told me my speech was much clearer, more enunciated. It was not that my speech was bad before but she noticed that I am enunciating clearer speech. I do not notice this. However, it was funny that she said that because a friend of mine got her second cochlear implant a year ago. Her husband had said the same thing about her. He noticed her speech was much clearer.

It will be interesting to see what other people say and notice.

Sounds are still echoey and it is taking my brain a min or two to process sounds. My left one didn't realize that the noise was the sound of my printer printing paper!

'Til next time,

Deirge