This week on the Made in India SLP podcast, Kinnari and Rabab interview Ms. Deepa Valame, M.Sc ASR, who is an established CI rehabilitation Audiologist based in Mumbai, India. Ms. Valame emphasizes how the cochlear implant switch-on day is just the beginning day of the whole listening journey that the patient and the family will embark on. She discusses various aspects right from the test battery approach to the latest evidence-based trends in CI. She talks about different aspects of CI in the pediatric population and concludes by sharing how united efforts to prioritize newborn hearing screening is the need of the hour especially in these times!