BeijingJune 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Cochlear, in collaboration with Professor Tang Ping’s team at Nanjing University of Science and Technology, has officially released large-scale empirical data on adult auditory online rehabilitation training, leveraging Li’er Tingxun 3.0. The vast real-world data clearly confirms: Cochlear implant and hearing aid users who undergo systematic online auditory rehabilitation training can achieve significant improvements in core listening abilities, including speech recognition, noise listening, auditory memory, emotion recognition, and dialogue comprehension. Hearing devices determine the lower limit of hearing, but professional auditory rehabilitation is what truly defines the upper limit of hearing clearly and understanding accurately.
The vast majority of cochlear implant recipients and hearing aid users share a common frustration: after device adjustment, they can hear sounds and perform well in quiet test environments, but they frequently encounter obstacles in real-life scenarios—struggling to hear voices in noisy settings, failing to keep up with fast speech, being unable to distinguish dialogue in group conversations, and even missing emotional tones in speech.
In fact, this is not a problem with the hearing devices, but a core truth long overlooked by many with hearing loss: Hearing ≠ Hearing Clearly ≠ Understanding.
Hearing aids or cochlear implants only help us detect and distinguish external sounds, but the recognition and deep understanding of sounds cannot be automatically achieved by the devices. It relies on the brain to undergo active, regular, and specialized training, repeatedly honing auditory perception abilities, to completely rebuild the auditory pathway and adapt to everyday communication scenarios.
Clinical data shows that for adults with post-lingual hearing loss who use hearing devices, the first three months after activation or fitting see the fastest progress in auditory abilities, after which they easily plateau. In complex listening scenarios such as noisy environments, fast speech, unfamiliar accents, and group conversations, difficulties in hearing and communication remain common.
More notably, traditional factors such as duration of device use, age at hearing loss onset, age at intervention, length of hearing loss, and cause of hearing loss account for less than 10% of the variance in auditory outcomes. This is sufficient evidence that: Undergoing auditory rehabilitation training after cochlear implantation or hearing aid fitting is the most underestimated key factor influencing the listening outcomes of individuals with hearing loss.
Passive daily activities like watching TV, listening to audiobooks, or environmental sounds cannot effectively improve listening abilities. Passive listening, lacking professional feedback, graded difficulty, and focused attention, only reinforces incorrect listening habits and makes it difficult to break through listening bottlenecks. Truly effective auditory rehabilitation requires professional standards including: immediate interactive feedback, active focused training, graded difficulty adaptation, multi-speaker practice, and simultaneous improvement of hearing and cognition.
This empirical data from Li’er Tingxun covers 28 provinces and cities across China, involving over 200 adult users of hearing devices (including cochlear implant recipients, hearing aid users, and bilateral cochlear implant/hearing aid users). Users trained regularly for an average of 44 days, with a daily average training duration of 36 minutes, accumulating extensive detailed data across various training modules. This is currently the most comprehensive, dimensionally broad, and data-convincing specialized study on adult online auditory rehabilitation in China. The improvements brought by training are visually evident, with real data clearly showing:
- Basic Auditory Discrimination Ability｜Overall Improvement 25%–48%
Specific improvements are as follows:
Word Comprehension: 25%, Tone Discrimination: 40%, Sentence Comprehension: 48%, Rhyme and Soft Tone: 35%, with a comprehensive leap in basic auditory discrimination abilities.
- Daily Life Listening｜Core Abilities More Than Double
Specific improvements are as follows:
Environmental Sound Recognition: 50%, Short Number Identification: 50%, Long Story Comprehension: 35%, making daily basic listening scenarios more stable and smoother.
- Advanced Communication Skills｜Breakthrough Improvements in Weak Areas
Specific improvements are as follows:
Long Number Identification: 46%, Emotion Recognition: 33%, Daily Conversation Comprehension: 32%, upgrading from “hearing” to understanding emotions and dialogue.
- Noise & Fast Speech Complex Scenarios｜Qualitative Leap in Real-World Settings
Specific improvements are as follows:
Fast Speech Dialogue Comprehension: 45%, Sentence Recognition in Noisy Environments: 20%, Story Comprehension in Noise: 15%, addressing users’ most painful everyday listening challenges.
Extensive empirical data fully demonstrates that: Systematic, regular, and scientific online auditory training can help cochlear implant and hearing aid users completely break free from the “can hear but can’t understand“ dilemma, achieving a transformation from passive hearing to active clear hearing and precise understanding.
Li’er Tingxun 3.0 is based on a WeChat mini-program, requiring no download or installation, allowing professional rehabilitation training anytime, anywhere. The product comprehensively covers all levels of auditory ability training, including detection, discrimination, recognition, and comprehension. It adopts a scientific design with multiple speakers, multiple speech speeds, and quiet + noise dual scenarios. Through interactive training methods, paired with real-time error correction feedback and error review functions, it brings professional auditory rehabilitation into every home.
This data reveals the core truth of auditory rehabilitation: Hearing devices are the starting point of listening, and scientific rehabilitation is the ultimate answer to smooth communication. Cochlear implants and hearing aids grant the possibility of hearing to those with hearing loss, but continuous auditory rehabilitation training determines the upper limit of listening in daily communication and social life.
Whether you are at a plateau in listening ability or looking to further optimize listening in noise and social communication, adhering to scientific and continuous specialized auditory rehabilitation training can yield visible improvements in ability.
May every cochlear implant recipient and hearing aid user steadily progress from “passive hearing” to “hearing clearly, understanding accurately, and seamlessly integrating into the world of sound,” regaining the joy and beauty of effortless communication.
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