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Rachel C. Patient Expert

Atlanta, Georgia
Nearly 18 years ago, I did not understand what sounds meant to me. Every morning for the first few weeks, when I was a rough little three-year old child, my mother had to sit on me in order to get the magnet on my head. I know that sounds cruel of my mother, but I am grateful to her for doing this... Full Bio
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#CITalk Holiday by Rachel C. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness A Twitter chat about cochlear implants and holidays. Read on »
#CITalk on Twitter – Sunday, January 27th! by Rachel C. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness Cochlear Implant Online is doing another #CITalk! WHAT: Cochlear Implant Talk (#CITalk) – Twitter chat with a new topic each session. WHEN: Sunday, January 27th 8 PM EST/ Mo ... Read on »
#CITalk on Twitter – Sunday, October 28th! by Rachel C. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness Cochlear Implant Online is bringing back #CITalk after a long hiatus! WHAT: Cochlear Implant Talk (#CITalk) – Twitter chat with a new topic each session. WHEN: Sunday, Octob ... Read on »
#CITalk on Twitter this Sunday, February 19th! by Rachel C. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness Cochlear Implant Online is taking a leap and being ahead of the technological curve by being the first to start a weekly chat on Twitter for the hearing loss community. WHAT ... Read on »
#CITalk Research and Future Technologies by Rachel C. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness View the story “#CITalk Research and Future Technologies” on Storify Read on »
#CITalk Review: March 18th: Music by Rachel C. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness Here are many tweets from our last #CITalk on March 18th on Music.  Blue O’Connell, a professional musician and bilateral cochlear implant recipient, co-hosted with us and p ... Read on »
#CITalk School by Rachel C. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness Here is the transcript of our last #CITalk on School. Parents and recipients share tips, challenges, and greatest success. View the story “#CITalk School” on Storify Read on »
“Born to Read” by Rachel C. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness For decades, literacy has been the Achilles’ Heel of deaf education.  Historically, students with hearing loss educated using methods that did not focus on listening and spo ... Read on »
“Hapy BirT Dey” — The Beauty of Internal Motivation by Rachel C. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness I was working with a little guy the other day — a kindergarten student. He was hard at work hunched over a piece of paper with a crayon in his hand. I peeked over his should ... Read on »
“Thank You” Is Not Enough by Rachel C. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness At Cochlear Celebration 2009, I had a chance to meet Jim Patrick, one of the members of the team that created the world’s first multichannel cochlear implant.  It was an inc ... Read on »
“You’re Not Getting Paid By the Word” — Hanen Presentation by Rachel C. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness On Friday, October 8, 2010, I attended a presentation called “Parent/Caregiver-Implemented Interactive Language Intervention: Introduction to the Hanen Approach” by Toby Ste ... Read on »
10 Quick and Easy Things You Can Do Today to Help Your Child Learn to Listen and Talk by Rachel C. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness Having a child with hearing loss can be overwhelming at times.  Between the therapy appointments, new jargon to learn, and keeping those hearing aids/cochlear implants on, i ... Read on »
2011 Year in Review by Rachel C. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness This past year brought many exciting changes and expansions to Cochlear Implant Online.  Here is a look back on some our highlights from 2011: In May, we re-released EaR Boo ... Read on »
2012 Year in Review by Rachel C. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness Top 10 Posts in 2012: Aqua Accessory Review Concerns about Toys R Us RONDO MED-EL Receives FDA Approval for Rondo Batteries will no longer be available for Cochlear Implant ... Read on »
5-Year Warranty Limited Time Offer for New Nucleus Recipients by Rachel C. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness If you are a cochlear implant candidate who will be receiving a cochlear implant before June 30th, 2013, you might be interested in learning more about Cochlear’s LIMITED ti ... Read on »
A Celebrity Family Teaches Their Son to Hear and Speak by Rachel C. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness This is a great article about New Kids on the Block’s Joey McIntyre and his wife teaching their son with hearing loss to hear and speak utilizing the Auditory-Verbal method! ... Read on »
A Cochlear Implant Recipient’s Perspective on RONDO by Rachel C. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness Allison lost her hearing to meningitis when she was 18 months old, and has profound hearing loss. She was implanted in 2001 with a MED-EL cochlear implant.  She currently wo ... Read on »
A Hero Who Works Against All Obstacles by Rachel C. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness I wrote an essay for my high school’s Martin Luther King essay contest.  We had to choose a hero who resembles Martin Luther King.  I chose Graeme Clark. For a long time the ... Read on »