“I work with the parents of young kids with hearing loss,” Hannah said. Hannah received a single cochlear implant on her left side in 1996. “We spent a lot of time teaching her the sound that letters made, not what the letter is called,” Joan said. Hannah says an important part of her clinical work is being able to relate to patients who have recently received cochlear implants. And I think it gives me more power to relate with parents when they know you’ve gone through what their kid is going through.”