Anne-Marie A - Cochlear Employee

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Location: CO

Who Has Hearing Loss: A family member

Hearing Loss Type: Progressive Loss

Hearing Loss Cause: Unknown

Device: cochlear

I am a child of a profoundly deaf parent (progressive loss-early deafened adult) who is a bilateral Freedom recipient and a Cochlear volunteer. I am also a Cochlear employee. Until 2006, my mother was fit with hearing aids that gave her little benefit. Still, she read lips skillfully and spoke quite beautifully. On a routine visit in 2006 to a hearing aid center, my mother had cochlear implant information shared with her. It didn’t take her long to schedule an evaluation and get her first implant. She chose a Freedom device.

At first her activation in 2007, we left the audiologist office in tears (of course!) and I was amazed at what this technology did for us. That same day we went back to her home in Tucson (I live in Colorado), and I went online to learn more about the company that changed our lives. I was surprised and excited when I learned that the Americas region was one mile from my home in Colorado and quickly applied for every job that I could.

After two interviews, I was hired at Cochlear Americas and began my work in consumer marketing support in June of 2007. Everyday I get to work with our passionate volunteer network and speak to candidates and families all over the country about how cochlear implants can change lives.

My mother is now a bilateral recipient: Carole M (she had her second surgery in Feb. 2008) and I am happy to be here, at Cochlear, doing what I love for all those who can benefit. What could be better?