Hearing impairment is considered to be one of the most common sensory impairments, and more than a billion young people are at risk of permanent hearing loss due to inadequate hearing. In order to improve listening, speech comprehension and communication skills, many opt for the installation of a sophisticated cochlear implant. Since hearing impairment adversely affects speech development and cognitive processes, and then social activity and inclusion, it often happens that they are isolated, deprived of information, stigmatized and marginalized. Numerous studies have pointed to obstacles encountered by people with hearing impairments that prevent them from participating fully in performing various social roles. One of the solutions to this problem is to encourage the inclusion and change of negative and wrong opinions, attitudes and consequent behavior of the general population so that the rights of people with disabilities are not respected only on a declarative level. The aim of this study was to examine the opinions of the general population about the inclusive possibilities of people with implanted artificial cochlea. In order to examine the general population about the inclusive possibilities of persons with artificial cochlea in the Republic of Croatia, a questionnaire containing 29 plots was created, which examined the demographic characteristics of respondents and respondents' opinions about people with implanted cochlear implant. The results showed insufficient information about the individual needs of people with artificial cochlea as well as the difference between men and women. Furthermore, the data showed that there is a difference in information and needs and inclusive opportunities of people with an artificial cochlea depending on what they have previously come into contact with a person with an implanted artificial cochlea. More specifically, people who have previously met people with a cochlear implant have shown better awareness of the needs and inclusive opportunities of people who have not.