CIICA – Cochlear Implant International Community of Action

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CIICA aims to close the gap in Cochlear Implant provision and ensure lifelong support for all who could benefit.

CIICA - United by a common mission and goals to maximise access to and support for implantation

Information sharing is by far the most important part of this development – everyone’s stretched

To connect people and encourage them to be active themselves

Providing and sharing up-to-date information and resources; volunteers don’t have time or resources to do this – but do have the passion and the communication skills and access to decision-makers

It is a really good idea to share resources and see what happens in other countries. This is crucial for advocacy work.

Facilitating countries – with core materials, and resources that can be applied in our own countries

Consistency of messaging is most important, resourcing, public awareness.

Latest News

QAIS KHAN, OF CIICA, ADVOCATES AT THE UNITED NATIONS FOR INCLUSIVE CITIES FOR ALL

INTERNATIONAL CI DAY AND CIICA’S SECOND BIRTHDAY!

GREAT VIDEOS AND MESSAGES

LIVING GUIDELINES CONSULTATION closes 31 May

Join Us

Joining gives you :

Access to the Community Members pages
Access to many Resources for advocacy work
A bi-weekly update of events, research and advocacy
Opportunity to share your news

Listen to our members

CIICA's Next Events

CIICA CONVERSATION:

18-30’s WITH CI

WHAT NEEDS TO CHANGE?

MAY 24/25

CIICA LIVE:

LIVING GUIDELINES FOR ADULTS

IMPACT ON SERVICES AND ACCESS?

JULY 6/7

What’s new on the website for our global CI Advocacy Community? See below and sign up if you haven’t already and join the global organisations and individuals from 60 countries already part of CIICA.

The world map below shows the reach of our website activity.

All our CIICA LIVE events are captioned and available at Events

See our CIICA CONVERSATIONS and their summaries at Events

LIVING GUIDELINES PROJECT See more information and the summaries of our conversations about it in Resources

International CI Day and our Second Birthday: go to News to see all the network activity!

New resource for radiologists: On-line Video training from British Cochlear Implant Group now available

The Impact of the Pandemic in individuals and services: see member videos in Resources. What have we learnt? Read more

Adult Survey on Services after CI : thanks to all! We had 1200 responses from 40 countries, and the oldest respondent was 91! See the first results here: ciicanet.org/news

We now have the Synopsis of the CI evidence in the World Report on Hearing available in German and in Italian. Thanks! See here

See all captioned presentations from CIICA LIVE events: The CI evidence from World Report on Hearing; CI Advocacy and how we do it; Ci Funding, challenges and priorities. ciicanet.org/events

See the video of Malala’s inspiring story and how to share videos from children and young people with hearing loss. Malala Fund and hearing health not-for-profit Cochlear Foundation, have partnered to raise awareness of hearing loss and remove it as a barrier to education. See ciicanet.org/news

We now have over 40 languages available on our website – go to the top right of home page and choose your language!

British Cochlear Implant Group (BCIG) publishes the latest UK CI data, showing the trends during the pandemic and this challenging time. Their figures over the years are also available. See ciicanet.org/news.

Two more summaries of the CI evidence available in WHO World Report on Hearing: one on Children’s CI evidence and one on Adult CI evidence. Download them here ciicanet.org/resources

New Resources available: CI Advocacy and The World Report on Hearing. A Briefing and a Synopsis for you to download and use and share. Synopsis available in Dutch, Turkish and Russian. More on the way. Go to ciicanet.org/resources

Research Roundups: we now have 6 research round ups of some of the latest published research papers relevant to our objectives and their key points for advocacy work. We hope that they are helpful and also inspire you to read the full papers! Go to: Research Roundups