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Cochlear Implant Champion Scheme - Training Event

11 May 2021 | Auditory Implants, ENT
The Cochlear Implant Champion Scheme aims to ensure that all eligible adults and children, and their families, are well informed about cochlear implants and are offered a timely referral. The scheme was started in 2019 by Martin O’Driscoll from the...

British Cochlear Implant Group Meeting (BCIG)

26 April 2022 -27 April 2022 | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Paediatric, Auditory Implants, ENT, Otology
This was the first conference I had ever attended and I felt very lucky to be able to be there in person after years of virtual learning. The conference began with a welcome from our hosts and a rendition of...

Deaf identity is not cookie cutter shaped: a CI user in a hearing world

25 August 2023 | | Audiology - Adult, Auditory Implants
Sam Burgess tells us what deaf identity means to her as a service manager in a busy healthcare library, with a cochlear Implant. To begin with, I have been deaf since birth due to congenital rubella. I have not known...

Young Audiology Implanters’ Forum 2022

1 July 2022
The second annual Young Audiology Implanters’ Forum (YAIF) was attended by 19 audiological implant consultant surgeons from across the UK, registrars selected to present free papers and industry representatives. The day focused on three themes: innovation in audiology implants, surgical...

The cochlear implant clinic multidisciplinary team meeting

30 April 2020 | | ENT, Auditory Implants, Otology
The world’s first cochlear implant clinic was in Melbourne, where multichannel devices were designed by Graeme Clark at the beginning of the cochlear implant era. We are fortunate to hear from Claire Iseli and Rob Briggs, surgeon members of this...

Less Than Full time Training in Otolaryngology

1 September 2014 | | ENT
A recent Statement from the Association of Surgeons in Training (ASIT) stated that in 2011 there were 17 otolaryngology trainees in Less Than Full Time training (LTFT) [1]. Otolaryngologists in LTFT posts (17/151) is the largest group after general surgery...

The role of prediction and gain in tinnitus

2 November 2020 | | Audiology - Adult, Tinnitus
Dr Will Sedley is a Clinical Academic Neurologist who has done groundbreaking work in the field of tinnitus mechanisms. Here, he introduces and explains the concepts of prediction and of gain as they relate to troublesome tinnitus. This article focuses...

In conversation with AAA President, Jackie Clark

1 January 2018 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Diagnostic, Audiology - Paediatric
Jackie Clark, PhD, is a clinical audiologist, professor of audiology, and researcher. She is also the new President of the American Academy of Audiology (AAA). While on an annual working trip to South Africa, Jackie answered a few questions about...

A psychophysical perspective on single-sided deafness and its treatment by cochlear implants

1 September 2015 | | Audiology - Adult, Auditory Implants
Bob Carlyon gives us a psychophysical perspective on the hearing benefits that can and cannot be achieved for patients with single-sided deafness with a cochlear implant, and discusses some of the challenges in maximising the effectiveness of the treatment. He...

Plasticity with cochlear implants: individual factors in the outcomes

1 May 2017 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Paediatric, Auditory Implants, Otology
Andrej Kral gives us an overview of neuronal plasticity in congenital hearing loss, and discusses why it is core to our clinical interventions in hearing loss and rehabilitation. The brain is born immature and undergoes extensive shaping during early development....

In conversation with Professor Graeme Clark

1 September 2017 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Diagnostic, Audiology - Paediatric, Auditory Implants, ENT, Otology, Paediatric ENT
As we celebrate the cochlear implant, we celebrate an amazing work of innovative biomedical engineering that is a life-changer to many recipients around the world. We take for granted the arduous journey of the cochlear implant since its conception. Eric...

Current considerations on neural development and hearing loss in young children

1 January 2015 | | Audiology - Paediatric, Neurotology
The young child’s brain has the ability to change in response to new stimuli, resulting in learning, the foundation of adaptive and intelligent behaviour. For children with hearing loss, a reduction or lack of auditory stimuli can have a ‘lifelong...