Meet three-year-old Holly, a little ball of energy, who loves streaming Peppa Pig audiobooks to her cochlear implant! 🎧🐷 Diagnosed with Pendred Syndrome at birth, Holly received her cochlear implant in May last year and is now getting the support she needs from a speech-language therapist to learn to listen with her new "magic ear."![]()
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Megan Dempster, Lead Audiologist, attended the MED-EL seminar in Austria last week. ![]()
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Megan, based in our Wellington office, will present her findings to the SCIP Audiologists. Megan says “I was so fortunate to go to Austria to participate in the MED-EL advanced programming course. ![]()
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"There were 15 other cochlear implant audiologists attending from Australia, so it was also a fantastic opportunity to get to know them and their clinical practices. Another highlight was going to an interactive auditory museum, in Innsbruck, dedicated to all things hearing. ![]()
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"My favourite was the giant ‘hair cells’ which were nearly as tall as me, which you could turn on and off to simulate hearing losses of different frequencies."
Both our SCIP clinics in Christchurch and Lower Hutt will be closed on Thursday 26th September for staff training. ![]()
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We'll be back to assist you during our regular office hours on Friday, 27th September from 8:30 am.