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Cochlear's Hear & Now Blog

Learn more about our recipients and their experiences with Cochlear.*

<img width="300" height="267" src="https://hearandnow.cochlear.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Jeannie-Child-e1744401584620-300x267.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" link_thumbnail="" decoding="async" fetchpriority="high">“I received my Cochlear Osia System in July of 2021. I can honestly say that getting the Osia System is the best decision I have ever made. Living a life without a hearing solution I lived over 35 years with single-sided deafness without a solution. When I was diagnosed in the early 1980’s, I was &#8230; <a href="https://hearandnow.cochlear.com/hearing-solutions/bone-conduction/single-sided-deafness-osia/">Continued</a>

Jeannie’s journey to better hearing with single-sided deafness through the Cochlear Osia System

<img width="300" height="300" src="https://hearandnow.cochlear.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/CI-scaled-e1744401135157-300x300.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" link_thumbnail="" decoding="async">“’Trust the process’ is what cochlear implant recipients are often told from the beginning to end of the surgical, activation and hearing adjustment process. If I had to sum up my experience of becoming a bilateral cochlear implant recipient in just a few words, those words would be ‘trust the process.’ How my journey to &#8230; <a href="https://hearandnow.cochlear.com/hearing-solutions/cochlear-implants/transition-to-bilateral-cochlear-implants/">Continued</a>

Trusting the process: Samantha’s transition to bilateral cochlear implants and hearing in both ears

<img width="300" height="300" src="https://hearandnow.cochlear.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Jerry-photo-1-e1744138158247-300x300.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" link_thumbnail="" decoding="async">“I grew up in a family of hearing loss. Every paternal male member of my family that I can recall had low-frequency bilateral sensorineural hearing loss and used hearing aids. I should have been prepared for what was to come, but when I took my first professional job in my late 20s, I was still &#8230; <a href="https://hearandnow.cochlear.com/hearing-solutions/cochlear-implants/bilateral-word-recognition-with-bimodal-hearing/">Continued</a>

With a family history of hearing loss, Jerry broke the chain with a bimodal hearing solution and now has 95% word recognition

<img width="300" height="300" src="https://hearandnow.cochlear.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Brandi-Trotter-Photography-Rachel-Priest-1-e1741976608786-300x300.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" link_thumbnail="" decoding="async" loading="lazy">“Hello! I am the proud mama to two of the sweetest children. I wanted to share my son Jack’s story. Jack, who recently turned 6, was diagnosed at birth with sensorineural hearing loss in his right ear (he doesn’t have the little hairs that vibrate to make sound for the brain to process and make &#8230; <a href="https://hearandnow.cochlear.com/hearing-loss/children/child-with-ssd/">Continued</a>

Jack’s journey as a child with single-sided deafness (SSD) and regaining access to sound, through a cochlear implant

<img width="300" height="300" src="https://hearandnow.cochlear.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/TDE6377-Edit-Edit-4_PHOTO-CREDIT-PHOTOGRAPHY-BY-TIM-ELLIS-scaled-e1740159057638-300x300.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" link_thumbnail="" decoding="async" loading="lazy">“In 2015 I started losing my hearing; I started noticing things around me sounding different. Things like people talking and their voices sounding muffled. I would be watching television and it seemed really low, so I would turn it up not realizing it was super loud. Family members would tell me ‘Mone (my nickname) you &#8230; <a href="https://hearandnow.cochlear.com/hearing-loss/sensorineural/lupus-related-hearing-loss/">Continued</a>

Living with lupus related hearing loss: Revisiting Tiena’s cochlear implant journey 8 years later

<img width="300" height="300" src="https://hearandnow.cochlear.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/LIF3530-300x300.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" link_thumbnail="" decoding="async" loading="lazy">We are excited to announce some new, updated features that are now available in your Cochlear account! We have made some great enhancements to improve your experience. Be sure to log in and explore all the updates. Thank you for being a valued part of our community! 1. Login and Account Setup Visit the Cochlear &#8230; <a href="https://hearandnow.cochlear.com/hearing-solutions/services/cochlear-account-new-features-2025/">Continued</a>

Log in to your Cochlear account to see the new features available now!

<img width="300" height="300" src="https://hearandnow.cochlear.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/CAM-MK-WEB-5523-ISS1-FEB25-Hero-900x507-3-1-300x300.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" link_thumbnail="" decoding="async" loading="lazy">Meet the Experts The first expert that we interviewed was Daniel Rhodin, MEng Phys, Senior Product Manager for the Osia System, followed by Ivan Gonzalez, BA, MBA, Global Product Manager for Osia Implants &#38; Surgery. Ivan is a Cochlear™ Baha® Attract System user since 2016. What was the vision behind the Osia System? Daniel Rhodin: &#8230; <a href="https://hearandnow.cochlear.com/hearing-solutions/bone-conduction/osia-5-year-anniversary/">Continued</a>

Celebrating 5 Years of Innovation with the Cochlear Osia System

<img width="300" height="300" src="https://hearandnow.cochlear.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/image-300x300.jpeg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" link_thumbnail="" decoding="async" loading="lazy">“We found out that Adrian has hearing loss when she was about to turn 4 years old. She has bilateral conductive hearing loss with her right as severe and her left as moderate. Having hearing loss caused her speech to be delayed and hard to understand. Even with speech therapy, we did not see much &#8230; <a href="https://hearandnow.cochlear.com/hearing-solutions/bone-conduction/osia-system-children/">Continued</a>

Adrian’s journey to better hearing with the Cochlear Osia System, now available for children 5 and older

<img width="300" height="300" src="https://hearandnow.cochlear.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/306359319_10159961457281390_1828835884191331827_n-e1738105615656-300x300.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" link_thumbnail="" decoding="async" loading="lazy">“I am a proud bilateral cochlear implant recipient using Cochlear’s hearing solutions. I was medically diagnosed with sensorineural hearing loss in both ears when I turned 3-years-old. What caused my hearing loss was and is still unknown today. My hearing loss journey I was a hearing aid user until I was 6 years old. My &#8230; <a href="https://hearandnow.cochlear.com/hearing-loss/sensorineural/cochlear-access-to-sound/">Continued</a>

Cochlear technology helped Kristina have access to sounds, including the sound of her fiancé proposing

<img width="300" height="300" src="https://hearandnow.cochlear.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/sisters-recent-scaled-e1737736772928-300x300.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" link_thumbnail="" decoding="async" loading="lazy">It&#8217;s funny to write about it now, eight years ago we had no idea&#160;what a cochlear implant was. Fast forward to 2025 and we have two beautiful girls, both with bilateral&#160;cochlear implants. A hearing loss diagnosis leads to endless questions Our journey began in&#160;2016. We had our first daughter Arielle who was born with sensorineural &#8230; <a href="https://hearandnow.cochlear.com/hearing-loss/children/myo15a-hearing-loss-in-siblings/">Continued</a>

Siblings embrace a life of fun and water activities, after MYO15A related hearing loss, thanks to their cochlear implants

*The stories above are shared by our recipients nationwide and not exclusive to that of a Cochlear Hearing Center recipient.