Advocacy Resources
An initial selection of resources, also available on our open resources page, to help our members in advocacy work. We look forward to adding more. Please send suggestions of resources you find useful.
CI Advocacy and The World Report on Hearing: summaries
The World Report on Hearing, launched on 3 March 2021, is an excellent resource of evidence and references to support the development of Ear and Hearing Services globally. These summaries provide the evidence from the Report to support your CI advocacy activities in an accessible form. Four to choose from! and Dutch, German,Turkish and Russian translations already available.
Adult Hearing Screening: why wait any longer?
This report provides information on Adult Hearing Screening, on screening issues and techniques available, the follow up required and the views of adults with hearing loss on screening. Adult hearing loss is the greatest cause of Years Lived with Disability over the age of 70, yet people leave it for years before seeking help. The recent WHO World Report on Hearing provides us with further support for adult hearing screening.
Global Guidelines: Standards of Care for Adult Cochlear Implantation
CIICA’s first resource is a summary of Global Guidelines on Standards of Care for Adult Cochlear Implantation, developed with EURO-CIU. It gives you the guidelines and their implications in an accessible way. Do look!
Useful videos from our members
Many of our members send us excellent resources to share and here are some of them that you might find helpful. Have a look!A Sound Future: Raising Expectations for Children with Deafness. Position Paper 2020
A Sound Future: raising expectations for children with deafness: This 2020 position paper from the charity Auditory Verbal UK provides uses the latest international research to outline the current landscape of the Auditory Verbal approach and paediatric deafness.
