Richard Pocker

Sarasota Florida, USA

Title: Cochlear implant basics: what a candidate for a cochlear implant needs to know.

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Biography

Suffering a hearing loss from illness at age five and wearing hearing aids until he suffered a sudden and total collapse of all his residual hearing when he was thirty, the author spent 35 years in total silence before receiving simultaneous bilateral cochlear implant surgery in 2015. His speech comprehension went from zero to 85% with rehabilitation. Since that time, he has mentored or assisted candidates and recipients through social media, his website, his book, and support groups. His wide experience has qualified him to help patients and doctors alike to overcome many of the misconceptions surrounding cochlear implants.

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