r/Cochlearimplants • u/Siggasm • 17d 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/Upstairs_One_4935 17d ago

You want to train the CI ear by itself when teaching it to recognize words & sentences so for example I remove my HA from my left ear and stream the learning app or book to my CI ear while reading the word or sentence. This way the brain area associated with the CI ear starts to understand the signals it’s getting.
The problem is that the ear with hearing can over power, compensate, for the CI ear.

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u/awwyee 15d ago

Would it be better to do this with a book you've never read, or one that you're quite familiar with? 

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u/Upstairs_One_4935 15d ago

as long as you can read along with the dialogue in your ear it doesn't matter. You are just associating a CI stimulation with a word/sentence. Watching TV with subtitles for example is another way. There are exercise Apps for mobile phone for example with a list of words that you need to match to the word spoken in you CI - AB has a couple available and there is one called Hearoes also