Well, that was cool.
Last year I drove into the city a couple of times to participate in some studies being done at the University of Minnesota that were designed to help the researchers understand how people with hearing impairments - and specifically, cochlear implant recipients - fill in the blanks, so to speak, when the speech they're hearing isn't understandable. Knowing how we can successfully fill in those blanks better from context could lead to the development of ways to help CI users develop that ability. Today I received an email from the audiologist that I worked with in the study, and she sent me a link to the paper that they published. I'll admit that so far I've just skimmed it but just receiving it, knowing that this study, this learning, could result in better speech comprehension results for people with CIs is just wonderful. I've been lucky enough to participate in studies to improve cochlear implants themselves, at the MedEl offices in North Carolina, and now h...