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The Importance of Learning to Listen In order to make the best use possible of the cochlear implant, patients must learn to use the device to listen. For adults who may have had some hearing prior to receiving the implant, this may come more naturally than for a child who is profoundly deaf, and who may not have developed a memory of speech and language sound. Patients who have not developed some listening skills by the time they are a teenager are not likely to gain much benefit from a cochlear implant. Patients and families are encouraged to develop and use listening as much as possible, to provide lots of opportunities to learn to use the implant and the information it can provide. Clinicians at the CIC can provide information on additional support programmes outside the hospital to help children access Early Intervention services, and to help adult patients join support networks.

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