Here are resources for practicing listening skills. The one I have been using most is Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening Labs. If I am missing anything, add it to the comments or contact me. You can also search for more read aloud stories, read along stories, and listening practice. Podcasting’s popularity has led to a boom …
Category: Implant Experience
Voluntarily Doing Lab
Don’t know why I didn’t think to do this before as I’ve known about the Listening Labs site for a long time. It has many simple conversations between two people rated as easy, medium, and hard. Each conversation has audio, a script, and a quiz. This is the process I’ve been following: 1. Listen to …
Dancing on the Speech Banana
I went for a remapping last Monday and the audiologist also did testing. The mapping didn’t change much, which didn’t surprise me as I didn’t feel a need for a mapping. But I had not been in for an appointment since October, so I thought it was time. She did two tests. First, I listened …
Read Along
I have been looking around for audio files of children’s books that I like reading to my kids. All I can find are Winnie the Pooh, Disney, boring stuff. Nothing like Goodnight Moon, Catch the Ball, Hop on Pop. Yes, simple books is where I need to begin. I know some are available on audio …
Music
La Crosse Tribune reports on a seventh grader who plays the violin and is hearing better since receiving the implant two years ago. It slipped my mind that I played two musical instruments. I took piano lessons around third grade since I was the kind of kid who tried things. I think I took lessons …
Gripe Gripe
I am sure the big supporters of the Deaf culture will be thrilled with this post, but I wouldn’t get too thrilled as I was perfectly fine with my digital hearing aids and it is a frustrating time for me. I need to give the whole CI business more time. I reported the processor broke. …
Train the Brain
JB wrote a great note and I think he explains why it is taking me a long time to make the most of the implant. “Most people do not realize that when you have not been able to hear, the addition of a device to assist in hearing does not give you instant understanding of …
Little Change
Not much update to the bionic ear. I’ve had the processor for almost six months, but of course, I mentioned I don’t have time to do practice listening skills. I’m patient about the whole deal, but when you frequently get asked how the hearing is going… it feels like the progress is too slow and …
Anti-CI Poetry
I didn’t see this one when I checked out the ASL poetry. I’m all for free speech, but the one from Michael J. Olivier is a strong misinterpretation on the reality of getting a cochlear implant. It’s a scare tactic. Not reality. But anyone who lets this scares him away from surgery has clearly not …
Listening and Memorizing
I’ve been working hard to learn all the words to three songs. Over and over and over. Amazingly enough, I’m not sick of them… yet. Been trying to keep an eye out for an easy book on CD (so I can listen to it at work and in the car) because I don’t have time …