Cochlear Family News A quarterly newsletter for Cochlear Family members.

How are your New Year’s Resolutions going? Whether your plans include travel, connecting with family and friends, working hard at school or improving your music listening, we’re right beside you, cheering you on!

Here at Cochlear Ltd, our new year plans include some exciting new advances for Cochlear™ recipients, and we are working hard on those.

We received a lot of positive feedback on our article in Issue 27 about how your suggestions led to the development of the Nucleus® 8 Sound Processor. So, in this issue we follow up with an article to explain how your “wish list” informed the development of the Baha® 6 Max Sound Processor. Our developers are dedicated to helping make your listening experience better every single day and your requests are genuinely appreciated.

Articles in this issue are packed with tips on how to get the most from your devices. And much of the advice comes directly from other recipients.

• Cochlear Volunteers collated answers to the questions they are most often asked about upgrades.
• Mariana from Brazil shares how she uses the latest technology to enjoy travelling abroad.
• We share research findings about why direct streaming is beneficial for Cochlear recipients. And Richard, who is a professional musician and recipient, gives a link for his Spotify playlist to get started if you want to better enjoy music.
• We have an article especially for teens and their parents, which is built on mentoring advice from other young people with hearing loss.

Let us know which articles are most interesting and useful to you, or what other articles you’d like to see in future.

Happy reading!