Michele Hackshall

Article for Cochlear Family to help customers with daily challenges for living with hearing loss.

Last year Mariana travelled from her home in Brazil to London to attend Cochlear Foundation’s ‘Achieve anything: Global Summit’ as a National Ambassador.
This exciting overseas trip to London was a fun and extremely busy week – meeting other ambassadors, sightseeing, sharing stories and listening to other advocates for hearing loss. Most important, were discussions about ways to advocate for young people with hearing loss and...

How resistant is my sound processor from water and dirt? What happens if my sound processor is submerged in water? How is my sound processor rated? We answer these common questions to help you protect your sound processor and stay on air.

Have you tried direct streaming audio with your Cochlear® sound processor? Many recipients tell us it helps them at work, school and more. Learn more about its proven benefits.

Do you use direct streaming with your Cochlear sound processor? Recipients often tell us they find it helps in many circumstances, including at work and at school – from joining work calls to watching videos.
Studies show that direct streaming is also proven to offer benefits in hearing with a sound processor.123 It ca...

Do you manage two different types of hearing devices? Cochlear™ Baha® System recipient, Michelle, shares how she manages her busy job, family and more while using a hearing aid on one ear and a Baha 6 Max Sound Processor on the other.

How the Nucleus® System evolved
Ever wonder how cochlear implants have changed over the past 40 years? We travelled back into the archives, and spoke to some of our earliest recipients, to see how the technology has changed and what that means for recipients around the world.
1977-1997: Introducing a new way of accessing sound to the world
Professor Graeme Clark had been working on developing a treatment for hearing loss for over a decade when he invented the first multi-channel cochlear impl...

You may not have heard of a Red Dot Award or even the Good Design Awards, but there’s a chance you are using a product that has won at least one of these prestigious international awards! Some of our products, including our latest release – the Cochlear™ Nucleus® 8 Sound Processor – have won a Good Design Award and/or the Red Dot Award for outstanding engineering and product design.
Such awards are external validation of our design capability compared to other leading companies, and demonstra...

The COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on people with hearing loss has been varied and widespread. For 25-year-old Qais, a cochlear implant recipient who graduated from his university course in design in the UK, the pandemic disrupted his plans to launch his career.
But, despite being stuck at home in lockdown, Qais found a silver lining.

Imagine deciding to study medicine – and in a foreign language

When 24-year-old Mahrukh was young, she wanted to become a doctor but felt it wasn’t possible because of her hearing loss.

When Professor Graeme Clark, Australian inventor of the multi-channel cochlear implant, reflects on his life’s work, his attention doesn’t focus on his achievements – or even the technology.
His focus remains firmly fixed on the importance of human connection – and how his work has helped people of all ages stay connected with each other.
“When I think about the implant and what it does … they have enabled adults to communicate with each other, taking them out of their loneliness and their is...

Blog for a digital marketing agency from my experience writing Twitter case studies as their global lead.

Article from one of the early users of a cochlear implant on his journey, written for Cochlear Family newsletters.

Article for Cochlear Family newsletters featuring an early user who now teaches children with hearing loss to provide strategies to help parents.

Article for Cochlear Family newsletters to help users get more from their device.

Article for Cochlear Family newsletters aimed to help parents of children with hearing loss with tips from an expert on helping their child develop social skills for life.