Cochlear Implant

By Rey Vetangelo


There are many professional settings in which you may find yourself working with elderly clients. When you are working with a lot of elderly clients, you should understand the importance of being sensitive to hearing loss and reacting well to your clients hearing loss.

Home modification for seniors is an extremely common occurrence as it allows individuals and aging couples to remain living in their own home instead of having to move into an assisted living home to help them perform their daily tasks. As age begins to interfere with the daily lives of the seniors living independently, it becomes apparent that changes are needed, but what specific changes or modifications to the home can be done to improve the quality of live for those living within the home?

This culture is particularly important for individuals who were born deaf, or became deaf at a young age. For individuals who lose their hearing later in life, this type of understanding is more difficult to achieve because they spent most of their lives in a very different community with different values and understandings.

Because of the difficulty of becoming deaf in a world that is largely hearing, many advancements have been made to improve the hearing of deaf individuals. And over time, these inventions have consistently improved and will continue to improve.

As you talk, you should be sure that your mouth is not obstructed and that you are annunciating as well as you can. This way, you can make the process of hearing and interpreting what you are saying much easier for someone that cannot depend solely on his or her ears to hear.

But with in-home modifications to the bathroom area, this room no longer needs to be problematic. Such modifications as walk in baths, lowered counter tops, installed hand rails, and even the addition of benches or seats can all make the bathroom a more comfortable place for seniors to navigate.

But not all modifications have to change the interior of the home. Some services and devices, such as a captioned call service which allows the hard of hearing to communicate via the telephone, are available that can simply make life easier for the elderly couple or individual living within their own home.

The decision to get a cochlear implant is an extremely complicated and personal one. Individuals making this decision should be respected, no matter what choice they make. The difficulty with these implants is that they can often create a distance between the deaf culture and the individual with a cochlear implant, so the choice can impact many aspects of a person's life.

Trying to avoid speaking on the phone may be your best option. Talking face to face as often as possible is a great way to ensure that nothing is going to be lost in translation and that everything that you need to convey is going to be heard and understood properly. Working with clients that have hearing loss may require a little extra effort on your part, but it is important that you do what you can to make sure your client understands. With a little extra patience and time, you can tap into a target market that you may not have been able to communicate with before.




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