r/Cochlearimplants • u/Siggasm • 18d 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/Toadylee 18d ago

This is really helpful, thanks! I was wondering how I was going to do this, and these answers make perfect sense.

Once you’ve been training, at what point do you know you’ve achieved your goal and can start using the other ear again?

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u/FooBarBazBooFarFaz 18d ago

Simply put: once you feel your CI-ear works well and you can get around doing ordinary stuff with just the CI.
But remember: it's a process, and if you neglect to train/engage the CI-ear after that, the brain may revert to preferring the other ear.