Cochlear Implant & Baha Candidacy

Cochlear Implants
Answer the questions below to see if Cochlear’sNucleus Freedom may help you or your child.  When using hearing aids ...

   

• Do you or your child have to ask people to repeat themselves in one-on-one conversations, even in a quiet room?

• Do you only understand relatives or close friends on the telephone?

• Do you or your child depend upon lipreading to understand a conversation?

• Do you watch only closed-captioned television programs?

• While dining in restaurants, do you or your child have difficulty following the conversation?

• Do you avoid social activities because you do not know what is being said and are afraid you may respond incorrectly?

• Are you or your child exhausted at the end of the day because communication requires such a high degree of concentration?
  

If you answered “yes” to two or more of these questions, you may be a good candidate for a cochlear implant. Request an information pack.

Want to learn more about Cochlear Implants?

Step 1: Be evaluated by a cochlear implant audiologist (find a clinic near you)
Step 2: Complete a medical evaluation
Step 3: Schedule surgery date
Step 4: Activate your implant(2-4 weeks following surgery)

 

The Baha system is quite different from the cochlear implant system and the people who can benefit from the two systems typically have very different types of hearing loss. The Baha system is designed for people with conductive or mixed hearing loss and for people with single sided deafness — deaf in one ear. While conventional air conduction and bone conduction hearing aids may provide a satisfactory solution for many people with these types of loss, they are not always suitable. For the conditions listed below, direct bone conduction and the Baha system may offer the advance in hearing technology that is needed.

• Conductive hearing loss

• Mixed hearing loss

• Single Sided Deafness (SSD^TM)
  

Want to learn more about Baha?

Step 1: Be evaluated by a Baha audiologist (find a clinic near you)
Step 2: Complete a medical evaluation
Step 3: Schedule surgery date
Step 4: Audiologist fits the sound processor (typically 3 months following surgery for adults and 6 months for children)

You can also request an information pack.