Community Advocacy News
CIICA - still growing! This is our space for shared news and here are just a few to start us off. People told us that they are keen to share news and information, so we don't "reinvent the wheel!".
We welcome short items here with a link to your site – and we will be providing more space for stories about successful advocacy too. Help us to make this an interesting and exciting space! Please send your brief contribution to info@ciicanet.org . We look forward to hearing from you.
OPCI: LIVING ROOM MEETINGS IN THE NETHERLANDS!
OPCI, the CI users and family group in the Netherlands runs regular groups in people's living rooms - read about why they are popular and who attends! Over 1,500 attendees so far!22 November 2023Read more
REHABILITATION FOR ADULTS: THE VIEW FROM AUSTRIA
Rehabilitation for adults is a key issue for advocacy and here Tobias Fischer of Austria shares the results of their survey about the needs for adult services in Austria.17 November 2023Read more
SWEDISH CI STATISTICS FROM BARNPLANTORNA
CI statistics are vital for advocacy work and often not available. Ann Charlotte Gyllenram has collected them in Sweden for Barnplantorna for many years and has just completed those for 2016 -2020. They show that Ci availability is far below and depends where you live. See the press release.5 October 2023Read more
NEW SENSORY FUNCTIONS TOOLKIT FROM WHO
The WHO Vision and Eye Care & Ear and Hearing Care Programmes have the pleasure to announce the publication of the Routine Health Information Systems – Sensory Functions toolkit. The toolkit aims to facilitate the monitoring of both eye and ear care services through a standard set of core facility indicators that guide data collection and reporting. FIND OUT MORE HERE.8 August 2023Read more
Quality Standards for Rehabilitation of Children receiving cochlear implants
This publication Quality Standard in Rehabilitation of Children with CI was one of the outcomes of the Erasmus project VOICE. You can download the paper here and the Quality Standards and see how to obtain training materials for parents, teachers and therapists.7 August 2023Read more
IFHOH and the International Disability Alliance: Advocacy opportunity
Ruth Warick, Past President of the International Federation of the Hard of Hearing, IFHOH, and Treasurer of CIICA, recently attended the Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities as the lead of the IDA delegation. See Ruth argue for the rights of those who have hearing loss for access to hearing aids and cochlear implants.31 July 2023Read more
Usher’s Summer Camp Opportunity in the USA
Qais Khan attended a summer camp in New Jersey, USA to support kids who have Usher Syndrome.9 July 2023Read more
Funding for CI increased for upgrades in Manitoba, Canada
Gladys Nielsen of CHHA (Canadian Hard of Hearing Association), Manitoba, Canada, reports on their successful advocacy work to increase funding for CI upgrades in Manitoba.5 July 2023Read more