Sound and WAY Beyond

An Interactive Listening Rehabilitation Program for Adults and Teens

Rehabilitation is critical for an adult to achieve the maximum benefit from a cochlear implant. Auditory training can help in listening situations including using the telephone, enjoying music and understanding speech in noise. Sound and WAY Beyond™ is available for purchase in our online store. 

We’ve partnered with leading clinical resource developers to bring you Sound and WAY Beyond, a self-paced, interactive rehabilitation program that allows you to practice and perfect your listening skills at home. Your results can be summarized and printed, facilitating meaningful discussions with your audiologist and therapist.

• Designed to improve vowel, consonant and sentence hearing.
• Designed to enhance telephone use and music enjoyment.
• Interactive, self-directed modules for adults and teens at all skill levels.
• Features 10,000 sounds, words and sentences.

The Science Behind Sound and WAY Beyond

At Cochlear™, we have a reputation for backing our technology with sound science. That’s why we based Sound and WAY Beyond on computer-assisted speech training software developed by House Ear Institute researcher Qian-Jie Fu, Ph.D., for use in clinical therapy.

In published research it has been demonstrated that computer-assisted speech training programs, when used in the recommended way, may improve speech recognition performance for cochlear implant recipients.*

Computer Requirements:

• PC with Microsoft® Windows® Vista, XP, 2000
• Macintosh using Parallels Desktop or Bootcamp
• Pentium® III or higher (recommended)
• 500 MB free hard disk space
• 256 MB RAM
• 16-bit sound card
• Display/screen resolution of 1024 x 768 or higher

* Fu,Q.J., et al. Maximizing cochlear implant patients’ performance with advanced speech training procedures. Hearing Research 2008 doi:10.1016/ J. Heares / 2007.11.010.