Cochlear Implant/Aural Rehabilitation Resources
COCHLEAR IMPLANT MANUFACTURERS
Advanced Bionics
http://www.advancedbionics.com
Cochlear Corporation
http://www.cochlearamericas.com
Med-El
http://www.medel.com
AUDIO SIMULATIONS: LISTENING THROUGH A COCHLEAR IMPLANT
UC Irvine School of Medicine
http://www.ucihs.uci.edu/hesp/simulations/simulationsmain.htm
University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/~loizou/cimplants/
House Ear Institute
http://www.hei.org/research/aip/audiodemos.htm
Sensimetrics
http://www.sens.com/helps/helps_d05.htm
INFORMATIONAL RESOURCES FOR SLPs
Advanced Bionics “Tools for Schools”
http://www.advancedbionics.com/Support_Center/Educational_Support/Tools_for_Schools.cfm?langid=1
Cochlear Americas Habilitation Outreach for Professionals in Education (HOPE)
http://hope.cochlearamericas.com/
Cochlear Americas Support Center
http://www.cochlearamericas.com/Support/290.asp
Med-El Contact & Support
http://www.medel.com/int/show4/index/id/4/title/USER-SUPPORT?PHPSESSID=1mo7gdvn8pf0if5spdhn5h0vs3
The Listening Room: cochlear implant forum
http://www.hearingjourney.com/
AUDITORY TRAINING CURRICULA/MATERIALS
Med-El Auditrain
http://www.medel.at/english/50_Rehabilitation/01_For_Adults/adult_rehabilitation.php
Nucleus Hear We Go
http://www.cochlearstore.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=36&products_id=187
Nucleus Sound and Way Beyond
http://www.cochlearstore.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=36&products_id=260
Speech Perception Instructional Curriculum and Evaluation (SPICE)
http://www.cid.edu/ProfOutreachIntro/EducationalMaterials.aspx
Word Associations for Syllable Perception (WASP)
http://www.bionicear.com/professionals/rehabmaterials.asp
Learning to Hear Again with a Cochlear Implant
http://www.hearagainpublishing.com/professional/cochlear.htm
Hearing Rehabilitation Foundation
http://hearf.org/index.html
Earobics
http://www.earobics.com
Sensimetrics Seeing and Hearing Speech
http://www.seeingspeech.com
ESL.net Pronunciation Power
http://www.esl.net/pronunciation_power.html
Conversation Made Easy
http://www.cid.edu/ProfOutreachIntro/ListeningSupportProducts.aspx
Sound-Object Associations: Learning to Listen to Sounds module
http://www.listen-up.org/dnload/listen.pdf
Listening Lists for Auditory Bombardment: word lists developed by Peter Flipsen
http://www.isu.edu/~flippete/lists.html
Discrimination Cards produced by Dave Sindrey
http://web.archive.org/web/20071227205726/http://www.sickkids.ca/cochlearimplant/section.asp?s=For+Therapists&sID=6702&ss=Discrimination+cards&ssID=6768
LISTENING
ACTIVITIES ON THE WEB
Hearing Journey: The Listening Room
http://www.hearingjourney.com/listening_room/index.cfm?langid=1%20
FindSounds: environmental sounds search engine
http://www.findsounds.com/types.html
Who Am I?: animal sound quessing game
http://www.kidsplanet.org/games/js/whoami.html
Bananas in Pyjamas: animal sounds matching game
http://www.abc.net.au/children/bananas/games/animal_sounds/default.htm
Perunakellari: animal sounds matching game
http://www.perunakellari.fi/animalsounds/animal-e.html
PBS Kids Fuzzy Lion Ears
http://pbskids.org/lions/games/ears.html
Crickweb: identifying sounds and matching musical instruments
http://www.crickweb.co.uk/assets/resources/flash.php?&file=sound1f
Fisher Price Animal Sounds Game
http://www.fisher-price.com//us/littlepeople/clubhouse/games.asp?section=animalsounds&gameID=LP_AnimalSounds
ManyThings.org: audio concentration games
http://www.manythings.org/ac/
Schoolsnet.com Sounds Game
http://www.schoolsnet.com
Language Guide: listening practice for common vocabulary
http://www.languageguide.org/english/
Schoolsnet.com Sounds Interesting - Exploring Sounds
http://www.schoolsnet.com/pls/hot_school/sn_primary.page_pls_unit_detail?x=16180339&p_unit_id=198
Earobics.com Alien Scavenger Hunt
http://www.earobics.com/gamegoo/games/alien/ashlo.html
A Great Question: quotations with discussion questions
http://agreatquestion.com/?cat=12
Cochlear Implant Association, Inc. Listening Exercises
http://www.wici.org/static/exercises.html
What Do You Hear?: vocabulary and grammar practice
http://www2.cambridge.org/interchangearcade/sortbytype.do?level=0&type=Cup_word_up
esl.gold.com Listening Links
http://www.eslgold.com/listening.html
Professor Garfield Lanolin's Greenhouse: practice listening to initial word sounds
http://www.professorgarfield.org/phonemics/greenhouse/greenhouse.html
Professor Garfield Pumpkin Patch: practice listening to final word sounds
http://www.professorgarfield.org/phonemics/pumpkin_patch/pumpkin_patch.html
Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening Lab: everday conversations with listening comprehension questions
http://www.esl-lab.com
ESL Independent Study Lab
http://www.lclark.edu/~krauss/toppicks/toppicks.html
English Language Listening Lab Online: listening games
http://www.elllo.org/english/About.htm
E.L. Easton English Online
http://eleaston.com/spelling.html#alpha
Scholastic Which One Makes the Sound You Hear?
http://www.scholastic.com/earlylearner/parentandchild/music/musicmatch.htm
Everyday English in Conversation
http://www.focusenglish.com/dialogues/conversation.html
123Listening.com: Listening materials for language teachers
http://www.123listening.com/worksheetmakers/choosepicture2.php
English Listening Lounge
http://www.englishlistening.com
American English Pronunciation Practice
http://www.manythings.org/pp/
Phonetics: The Sounds of English and Spanish (University of Iowa)
http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/about.html#
Brain Connection Brain Teasers: memory, attention, and sound discrimination games
http://brainconnection.positscience.com/teasers
Lyrics World
http://www.lyricsworld.com
Lyrics search engine
http://lyrics.astraweb.com
Speechinaction: Listening and Pronunciation Online
http://www.speechinaction.com/index.htm
AT&T Labs – Research Text to Speech Demo
http://www2.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php
Classic Fairy Tales
http://classicfairytales.com/en/main
Light Up Your Brain Classic Children’s Audio Stories
http://lightupyourbrain.com/stories.html
Candlelight Stories
http://www.candlelightstories.com/
A Resource for the Newly-Implanted Teen or Adult
http://www.auditoryverbaltraining.com/websites.htm
BBC Words and Pictures
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures
Distorted Tunes Test: music discrimination site vdeveloped by Dennis Drayna
http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/tunetest/dtt.asp