Cochlear Implant Program (CIP)

Why is rehabilitation important?
Rehabilitation is vital, particularly for a child, to understand what is being heard through a cochlear implant. Unlike adults who have lost their hearing after the development of speech and language, deaf children have no auditory memories to draw upon to understand spoken language. Rehabilitation is a lifelong process that takes the child through language acquisition – learning to attach meaning first to a syllable, then to words, phrases and sentences and ultimately to conversation. For many adults, who have not benefited from amplification for many years, there is also a period of learning to re-adjust to auditory stimulation