{"id":2678,"date":"2021-03-06T16:58:15","date_gmt":"2021-03-06T21:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/ent\/adultcochlearimplant\/?page_id=2678"},"modified":"2025-02-19T14:49:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T19:49:39","slug":"cochlear-implant-candidacy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/ent\/adultcochlearimplant\/cochlear-implants\/cochlear-implant-candidacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Cochlear Implant Candidacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hearing can be a big part of how we communicate with others. You may be a cochlear implant candidate if you are already wearing hearing aids and find that you are:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2784\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/ent\/adultcochlearimplant\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/518\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-27-at-4.25.13-PM-300x233.png\" alt=\"Cochlear Implant Candidacy at UNC Health\" width=\"500\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/ent\/adultcochlearimplant\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/518\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-27-at-4.25.13-PM-300x233.png 300w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/ent\/adultcochlearimplant\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/518\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-27-at-4.25.13-PM-1024x795.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/ent\/adultcochlearimplant\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/518\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-27-at-4.25.13-PM-768x596.png 768w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/ent\/adultcochlearimplant\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/518\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-27-at-4.25.13-PM-600x466.png 600w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/ent\/adultcochlearimplant\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/518\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-27-at-4.25.13-PM.png 1358w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li>Relying on lipreading for everyday communication<\/li>\n<li>Often saying \u201cI can hear you, but I don\u2019t understand what you\u2019re saying.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Having a hard time using the telephone<\/li>\n<li>Feeling alone and that your hearing loss is keeping you from doing things you once loved<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Contact our clinic at 984-974-2599 to learn more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hearing can be a big part of how we communicate with others. You may be a cochlear implant candidate if you are already wearing hearing aids and find that you are: Relying on lipreading for everyday communication Often saying \u201cI can hear you, but I don\u2019t understand what you\u2019re saying.\u201d Having a hard time using &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/ent\/adultcochlearimplant\/cochlear-implants\/cochlear-implant-candidacy\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Cochlear Implant Candidacy\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44955,"featured_media":0,"parent":2203,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-2678","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","odd"],"acf":[],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/ent\/adultcochlearimplant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/ent\/adultcochlearimplant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/ent\/adultcochlearimplant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/ent\/adultcochlearimplant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44955"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/ent\/adultcochlearimplant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/ent\/adultcochlearimplant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2678\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/ent\/adultcochlearimplant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/ent\/adultcochlearimplant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}