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Episode: Barbara Mellert - The Best Advice for Parenting Children With Cochlear Implants
Description: Barbara Mellert is a cochlear implant advocate and has worked as an Academic Technology Consultant at Dartmouth College for more than 20 years. She started as an advocate with her two children, both of whom have bilateral cochlear implants. She runs the Facebook page “Parents of Children with Cochlear Implants,” which currently has over 14,000 members. She is also on the board of the American Cochlear Implant Alliance as a parent representative. In this episode… Being the parent of a child with hearing loss can be especially difficult. It’s not only dealing with the normal stresses of paren...