January 12, 2019

So I wanted to tell you the latest in my journey. I met with my aural rehabilitation person. She helps me train my brain to listen better with  my new cochlear implant. I spent an hour and half with her. She started with a baseline and covered her mouth while I repeated words, sentences and sounds back to her. She could tell I was frustrated as I knew I was not getting them all but she said I was doing good. She said I could not tell differences between sounds like the letter b and v. It was a pretty informative session as she gave me a list of resources to help me practice listening skills. The first resource I tried was Advanced Bionics ipad app. It is pretty cool! There is a list of topics like weather, holidays, store prices and so forth. You pick one. Then there is a video. You pick a person( a lady or a man). There are several to choose from. You can also pick if you would like noise in the background. I started with a lady and no noise. The lady says a sentence. There are words for you to choose from. You need to select the words to make the sentence the lady said. I got most of them correct!!! So tomorrow, I will be trying the same test but I will turn the video off so I do not lipread! Wish me luck!
~Deirdre