Resources

The Pandemic has had a huge impact globally - and on those with hearing loss and those with CI. Here you can see videos from a range of CI users, families and service providers illustrating the challenges the pandemic has brought and what they have learnt from it.

Person Centered Care is increasingly recognised as important in health care and the IDA Institute has been working in this area for some time. They now have some great resources to help us in our busy lives to find the information we need. It brings you studies, reports and tools. Do have a look!

The Living Guidelines Project aims at producing evidence based guidelines for CI in adults, to ensure that those who need CIs get the best possible services. CIICA has had a role in ensuring that the user voice is heard in the development of the guidelines, and held four Conversations where you had your say. DOWNLOAD THE SUMMARY.

EuroTrak is the largest comparative multi-country study on hearing loss and hearing aid usage. See the information on the low awareness of CI in UK, France and Germany. What are we doing about this?

The British Association of Teachers of the Deaf have many resources for teachers and parents and young people on their website. They publish annual reports about teh figures for deaf children in the UK and resources about managing Listening and Cognitive Effort. Do have a look and they are downloadable.

The Real Cost of Hearing Loss looks at the cost of unaddressed hearing loss to the individual and to society. It considers not only economic costs but personal costs.

This is an important topic -and this training resource for radiographers has been developed to help to prevent problems happening. The resource is on line and easily available - make it known to radiographers everywhere!

SUKI, the Czech organisation, has produced seven great brochures for different educational situations – and EURO-CIU is helping with the translations. The project is to support the inclusion of hearing impaired children (6-12).  They include: Being a parent to a child with hearing impairment – starting school Teacher of a child with a hearing impairment. […]

Accessibility in Education. Accessibility in the pandemic is so important - in Current Issues Lidia Best and others share their views on Accessibility. Here listen to these Spanish CI students share their issues and what they need and demand to provide Accessibility in Education