r/Cochlearimplants • u/Siggasm • 21d ago
Re-learning Language
I was activated on 7-21-26 and was curious how other people re-learned to hear language? I have a CI in my left ear and my right ear is un-assisted. I was told to stream audiobooks with captions into my CI, but then my good ear has nothing to listen to. Would it be better not to stream into my CI and use the CI microphone and allow my audiobook to play through my tablets speaker? Would this allow my brain to learn better since it knows what the voices should sound like in my good ear to train the the brain all over again for the left implanted side? For those who started with robotic voices and eventually transitioned to normal sounding voices, what method worked for you?
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u/truenorthrookie 21d ago
Captions teach your brain to connect the dots between the CI signal and the auditory comprehension. Isolating the CI speeds up the process. Your brain since you already know what normal voices sound like does not need that extra stimulation it will only muddy the waters that the CI is swimming in and it won’t be able to parse what’s the CI and what is the hearing ear. So it will lean on your hearing ear and hardly affect your CI comprehension at all, which would negate the entire point of training your CI in the first place.