Barbara Foster

Music and Sound Quality With MED-EL Cochlear Implants Learning Outcomes After this course, participants will be able to explain why music listening presents unique challenges for cochlear implant recipients compared to speech perception. After this course, participants will be able to describe how Fine Structure Processing (FSP) coding strategies improve pitch perception and music enjoyment for cochlear implant recipients.

Question How Do MED-EL's Expanded Pediatric Cochlear Implant Indications Change Candidacy Criteria and Clinical Practice? Answer Background and Rationale for Expanding Indications Pediatric cochlear implant indications changed very little over the decades, with incremental steps that were few and far between. Even after the significant expansion of research and professional standards from 2000 to 2020, clinicians widely agreed that FDA changes had not gone far enough.

A Story about Womanhood This is a story that is close to my heart. It is one of many from my debut book of short stories and poems titled Always Freeing Beauty. If you like this story then you might like the book. This is Crossing the Great Divide. There has been a bridge intersecting childhood and womanhood. For a while my body has been sitting on the womanhood side of the bridge. It has taken my mind and heart a little while longer to cross the bridge.