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.

RALLY CAPS THE MOVIE

RALLY CAPS THE MOVIE

Rally Caps the movie focuses on the ability in disability and portrays strong deaf characters with cochlear implants who use listening and spoken language. This family film will spark many conversations, smashing hearing loss related stigma, so that our children will no longer need to explain their hearing technology, because they will be "Just like Lucas and Niki!"
21 March 2024Read more  
OPCI: LIVING ROOM MEETINGS IN THE NETHERLANDS!

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: 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

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

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

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

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

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