 Hello and welcome to Rehab at Home with Medell. Earlier in our series, you met Mary Jane. Mary Jane uses a cochlear implant for her single-side deafness. In this episode, we will learn what Mary Jane does to improve her ability to understand speech when the person talking is far away. Understanding speech from a distance is almost our everyday situation. The two coping mechanisms we currently use are looking for where you expect the person to be so you can communicate easier or closing the distance if you know where they are. They're the two main ways where you cope with it. One of the benefits of having a RONDO 3 is that it pairs with an audio link and an audio link can be used as a microphone. So either by a person so they can talk into it direct or placed on a table in the social situation like cafe or so on so that I am a little bit closer to hearing what other people are saying. Understanding conversation when the person talking is far away is difficult for everybody. For hearing implant users, distance presents an additional challenge. Using assistive listening devices such as remote microphones and FM systems solve the problem of hearing over a distance. The person talking wears a microphone and this transmits speech directly to your audio processor. We heard from Mary Jane's husband Nick that he's mindful of distance and he will remember to move closer to get Mary Jane's attention before talking. Share this information with your friends and family so they can be part of helping you have more success understanding conversations when distance is involved. Thanks for watching and don't forget to subscribe to the NEDL blog to get all of the latest rehab at home videos straight to your inbox.