Pacing the Panic Room is one of my recent favorite blogs. It’s written by Ryan, whose stepson LB was diagnosed in 2009 with Smith-Magenis Syndrome. Never heard of it? Most people haven’t. It’s a developmental disorder that affects people all over their body. They may have mental Read More
Archive for the ‘Music’ Category
Buy “Do Fun Stuff” to Support Smith-Magenis Syndrome Research
September 1st, 2010 by Hearing Sparks
Posted in Advocacy, Hearing Loss, Music |
Alarming rate of teen hearing loss
August 19th, 2010 by Cacophony to Symphony
I figure most of you have heard this by now, but being a teen I think it alarms me that much more to consider the number of friends that I have who will likely require hearing assistance when they are older. So, I’m posting this for those who already haven’t already heard…1 in 5 Read More
Posted in Cochlear Implant, Deaf, Hearing Loss, Music |
MusicLink issues
August 17th, 2010 by CD's Ear Blog
And already I’ve got issues with the TecEar NoizFree music link. Great. I think the wiring connection has gotten a bit loose. I have to play with the cord a bit to get the best results for listening to music, but I move in the slightest bit, the connection disappears. Definitely not too Read More
Posted in Cochlear Implant, Music |
A Dance With Mom
August 16th, 2010 by Our Journey
Many years ago, one of my sister-in-laws gave me a beautiful music box for Christmas. Not just your ordinary music box, but one that brings you back in time. It plays flimsy like records, each with their own song, that have all these grooves and slits that are used to produce the music with Read More
Posted in AVT, Cochlear Implant, Music |
Music to My Ears
August 11th, 2010 by Cochlear Implant Online
Many CI candidates (or their parents) worry about the ability to enjoy music through their electronic “ears”. Like anything, appreciating music with cochlear implants (or hearing aids) is a process that requires appropriate expectations and lots of practice. Here are some Read More
Posted in AVT, Cochlear Implant, Music |
In Which Connor Rocks Out
August 4th, 2010 by Connor's Song
We are never, ever doing a “Fun With Music” weekly theme ever again. I’m not sure I will still retain my sanity by the time the week is out. This is because Connor has decided that the super-fancy keyboard, which came in the Theme Box of The Week, is his favorite toy ever in the Read More
Posted in ASL, Deaf, Hard-of-Hearing, Music, SEE |
Glee-Imagine
July 28th, 2010 by At The Rim
Who says deaf can’t sing ? Imagine there’s no countries,It isn’t hard to doNothing to kill or die forAnd no religion tooImagine all the peopleLiving life in peace You may say I’m a dreamerBut I’m not the only oneI hope some day you’ll join usAnd the world will Read More
Posted in Deaf, Music |
A Broadway CI Moment
July 17th, 2010 by Laurie's Dance with Sound
Wow! Oh, Wow! My husband and I recently saw the Broadway musical, “Wicked” at the Gershwin Theatre while on vacation in New York City. For the first time EVER, I was able to enjoy a show without missing a single word or action. Steve called ahead before he made our reservations to see if they Read More
Posted in Cochlear Implant, Hard-of-Hearing, Music, Music |
Pumpin’ the Music to My Ears
July 16th, 2010 by Cochlear Implant Online
“I have a dream…a song to sing…” As I’m typing this blog entry, I’m chilling out in my bed and listening to a song from One of the biggest questions I receive as a cochlear implant user is how do I listen to my iPod. I just use the regular white earbuds that comes with the iPod. Read More
Posted in Cochlear Implant, Music |
Music for Deaf people, is this possible???
July 8th, 2010 by Drew
Well, this is quite interesting. German designer Frederik Podzuweit invented a device that “promises to make hearing music a reality for the deaf community based on synesthesia — a type of sensory stimulus evokes the perception of an entirely different sense.” In other words, Read More
Posted in Deaf, Music |
Can you hear this?
June 21st, 2010 by funnyoldlife
How good is your hearing? Tee hee. This one’s a damn sight more interesting than the RNID hearing test. This link takes you to a simple hearing test. Can you hear this? I thought this is an interesting one to do with a new cochlear implant. The site has a list of tones that go from 8Hz to Read More
Posted in Cochlear Implant, Deaf, Hearing Loss, Music |
Music makes my heart sing
June 19th, 2010 by funnyoldlife
I’ve just had my 3 month checkup. The first person I saw was my surgeon who is a very happy bunny. All looks good! My internal implant is a little sore along the side of the bump, this turned out to be where it touches the processor. I’ll need to hop along to my opticians and get the Read More
Posted in Cochlear Implant, Deaf, Hearing Aid, Music |
Tenth anniversary for “Association of Adult Musicians with Hearing Loss”
June 5th, 2010 by Kokonut Pundit
The Association of Adult Musicians with Hearing Loss group will be celebrating their 10th anniversary on June 8, 2010. These are deaf and hard of hearing musicians who have a love for playing their musical instruments and their music. Over the years it has grown painfully slow until the last few Read More
Posted in Deaf, Hard-of-Hearing, Music |
She listens to music…
May 4th, 2010 by My Gorgeous Girl's Journey to Communicating
Here I am tidying up after dinner and Mary is fiddling with my computer. She wants the media player on. We liked “We Built this City”, I had to stop and dance to it. She was not too keen on the Blues Brothers. Now we like the drum beat of Africa, Toto. She is making more vocalisations Read More
Posted in Deaf, Music |
Music
May 3rd, 2010 by Cochlear Kids
We gave him his EARLY birthday present yesterday (can’t believe he’ll be 9) which was an ipod shuffle. Is this how any other ci people are doing it? He didn’t like telecoil, he said it was too quiet (Brook hates telecoil !) so he’s just using it w/earbuds near his mics and Read More
Posted in AVT, Cochlear Implant, Music |
The unbearable loudness of hearing
April 25th, 2010 by funnyoldlife
It has been one month since activation and my world has changed beyond recognition and exploded into a kaleidoscope of sounds. Some are old sounds which sound different, some are completely new. The world sounds different through a cochlear implant and it is starting to sound much better. Each Read More
Posted in Cochlear Implant, Deaf, Music, Speech |
Apple explains the science of sound and listening responsibly
April 23rd, 2010 by Live. Love. Hear.
On December 30, 2009, Apple Inc won their appeal for iPod hearing loss lawsuit. The appeals court in San Francisco ruled that the plaintiffs failed to show that use of the iPod poses an unreasonable risk of noise-induced hearing loss. Senior Judge David Thompson wrote, “At most, the Read More
Posted in Hearing Loss, Music |
That’s Just the Way We Hear
April 21st, 2010 by Hearing Sparks
That’s Just the Way We Hear was a video produced in 2009 by a group of kids for Better Speech and Hearing Month. Now the kids are back with a remake and a mission: they want the Jonas Brothers to hear their song. Help them out by voting for them here, and watch the video either on Youtube Read More
Posted in Advocacy, Hearing Loss, Music |
Etymotic custom earpieces – are they worth it?
April 20th, 2010 by Live. Love. Hear.
The Wall Street Journal recently posted an article written by Courtney Banks, who shares her experience with using a pair of custom-fit, noise-isolating earphones by Etymotic, Inc. Listening to any music device can be frustrated in the presence of background noise. There have been Read More
Posted in Hearing Loss, Music |
Music and Me: Another Approach
April 19th, 2010 by Hearing Sparks
A few days ago I read this blog post on Life With the Diva about her approach to music. (And here, her music listening process.) That got me thinking about my own relationship with music and how I listen to it myself. I previously wrote a little bit about this topic in December, in this blog Read More
Posted in Hearing Loss, Music |
CI AM A ROCK STAR!!! VOTE NOW!!!
April 18th, 2010 by The CI Circle News
Music Video for Do Something Battle of the Bands Raises Awareness of Importance of Music Education for Kids with Hearing Loss Students enter unique video in DoSomething.org and the VH1 Save The Music Foundation Battle of the Bands contest to raise awareness of importance of music education Read More
Posted in Advocacy, Cochlear Implant, Music |
She had a speaking part
April 14th, 2010 by Cochlear Kids
So my pretty tattooed little girl, had her PTO program at school last night and she had a speaking part! Yes, in case you haven’t heard, deaf children can speak, and this one does it loud and often! Her line was, “How do you say the ABC’s backwards?” and her friend A next Read More
Posted in AVT, Cochlear Implant, Music |
Cochlear Implant Miracle Moment of the Day
April 14th, 2010 by Live*Laugh*Love*Family
While listening to the 90s on 9 , MC Hammer’s U Cant’ Touch This came on. From the back of the van I hear Christian pipe up and question “You can’t touch this? You can’t touch what?”. After one refrain, he’s got the chorus and I hear him sing Read More
Posted in Auditory/Oral, Cochlear Implant, Music |
The Farmer’s Cheese
April 14th, 2010 by funnyoldlife
You’re invited to join MED-EL for a musical performance to celebrate the year 2010 being their 20th anniversary, check out performance dates for the children’s musical “The Farmer’s Cheese”. Devised for musical theatre by Oliver Searle, based on the children’s book, “The Farmer’s Read More
Posted in Cochlear Implant, Deaf, Music |
In Which Connor Has A Parade
April 10th, 2010 by Connor's Song
Tomorrow is the annual Daffodil Parade, which is a major event in the local area– the parade has over a hundred entries every year and actually travels through four local cities in one day. Many of the schools in the area participate, including the marching band of our local junior Read More
Posted in Hard-of-Hearing, Hearing Aid, Music |
Jumping the banana
April 7th, 2010 by funnyoldlife
Having been assessed as deaf enough for a cochlear implant, and passing the associated tests, I was wondering how much of an improvement in hearing the implant has given me. Lots of new high frequency sounds have been popping up whilst low frequency sounds have only just started coming back. It Read More
Posted in Cochlear Implant, Deaf, Music |
Hear from them in Singapore
April 7th, 2010 by Cochlear Implant Online
I just discovered this great video of various cochlear implant users living in Singapore speaking about their joys of having the ability to hear and speak and participate in endless number of activities that would be very difficult to do without having the ability to hear such as playing the Read More
Posted in AVT, Cochlear Implant, Music |
And so she was … and mighty tasty, too!
March 31st, 2010 by Orange
Ben’s favorite movies are Mary Poppins, Yellow Submarine, and Free to Be. Lately, Free to Be has topped the charts. I grew up listening to the album, but never saw the made-for-TV movie until Ben’s Aunt Kathy got him a DVD of it in January. At first the 1974 ambiance is a little Read More
Posted in Cochlear Implant, Music |
Joey McIntyre Talks About His Son’s Hearing Loss
March 29th, 2010 by Hearing Sparks
Joey McIntyre is the youngest member of New Kids on the Block. (Just hearing that name brought back a ton of memories from elementary school. So many kids had crushes on somebody from that group!) He has two children, Griffin and Rhys, who was born just three months ago. In this People interview, Read More
Posted in Advocacy, Audiology, Hearing Loss, Music |
What happened with the “recruitment”?
March 12th, 2010 by Becoming Deaf in Norway 2007
I got this question from a reader (Candy): Kim’s post send me here, and I really like your post. What gets me amazed is that I do have that problem some of the time and I never knew there was a word for it! Do you have implants now? and, if so, does it helps get rid of Read More
