Advocacy Resources
In this section you will find a number of helpful resources for your advocacy work, and, in particular, you will find CIICA’s new Practical Advocacy Guide, where you will find a developing resource to guide you in your advocacy work, including training resources and videos, and where you can learn from experts and each other.
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.
52 stories of successful advocacy about hearing loss…….
CIICA is based on a global consultation about how to move on CI advocacy work, and during this we asked for examples of successful advocacy for hearing care. Some really exciting examples were shared, and people have been asking about them, so here they are to inspire you!
CI in India: Balancing an advanced technology with the requirements of a developing country.
In many countries such as India and S Africa there are many challenges for funding CI with competing demands on funds. Neelam Vaid explains the progress being made in India in such challenging circumstances - emphasising the need for sustainability and moving to state and government funding.
Spend2Save
The Spend2Save document provides a summary of the evidence that providing hearing technologies not only changes lives, but saves society money. Available in many languages - have a look!
