CIICA'S third birthday

INTERNATIONAL CI DAY, 25 FEBRUARY AND CIICA’S THIRD BIRTHDAY!

Once more it’s International CI Day, 25 February – and also CIICA’s third birthday…. Closely followed by World Hearing Day, 3 March.
How are you celebrating? Send us information and photos to share of your activities ! Send us a message… especially from your young people.

CIICA will be celebrating by launching a new report on that day – about Young Adults with CI – and how they see their opportunities and challenges.
We have the first group of young deaf adults who have been hearing with CI since childhood. The report includes evidence from our global survey and also from CIICA’ s Young Adults’ Conversations which are increasingly popular.

OUR FIRST GLOBAL CONFERENCE
CI ADVOCACY IN ACTION: lots of interest!

CI ADVOCACY IN ACTION
MAY 9/10, 2024 | BRUSSELS, BELGIUM
We are delighted that there is such interest in this conference – and do hope that you will be able to join us for CIICA’S first “real” conference!

Hear about how groups of parents, young people and advocates have achieved success, learn from professional advocates what works, share your challenges and get new ideas by networking with global partners. This first-ever global advocacy conference on CI will provide crucial learning opportunities and a chance to be part of a global movement for change.

We are delighted that Dr. Shelly Chadha, Technical Lead, Ear and Hearing Care,WHO, has agreed to introduce the programme inspiring us to success in advocacy for hearing care.

Learn more at https://ciicanet.org/events/ci-advocacy-in-action-first-global-conference-may-2024/ and find out how you can share your advocacy activities at the conference. We want to showcase how much you are doing in CI advocacy even if you can’t attend in person.

Please share the invitation and please take a look at the conference agenda below.

CONFERENCE AGENDA

CIICA CHATS FOR YOUNG ADULTS WITH CI

Monday 12th February, 20:00 UK; 21:00 CET. 15:00 EST; 12:00 PST. Tuesday 13th Feb, 07:00 AEDT, 09:00 NZ

The first CIICA Chat will take place on Monday, 12th February, at 8 pm UK time for an hour.

CIICA CONVERSATIONS: PERSON CENTRED CARE, MEASURING QUALITY OF LIFE

Thursday 7th March, 19:00 UK, 20:00 CET, 14:00 EST, 11:00 PST.
Friday 8th March, 06:00 AEDT, 08:00 NZ

Following our series of CONVERSATIONS on Person Centred Care led by Kris English and others, this CONVERSATION will offer you the opportunity to share your cochlear implant QOL experiences with hearing loss and CI, and meet Dr. Teddy McKrackan, the lead developer of a well used CIQOL measurement, recently posted on CIICA’s website https://ciicanet.org/resources/cochlear-implant-quality-of-life-ciqol-assessment-tool/

What aspects of quality of life are important to you – your family? Are they measured? How? Join us for an hour’s stimulating conversation with Kris, Lori and Teddy.

Please share the invitation!

RESEARCH ROUND UP:
CI AND TINNITUS

Go to Research Roundups to read her report with research summaries with their indications for advocacy work and policy.

WORLD HEARING DAY 3 MARCH 2024 CHANGING MINDSETS
WHAT ARE YOU DOING? DON’T FORGET TO REGISTER

Go to World hearing day 2024 (who.int) and see the great resources that are available – they will be available in all the 6 UN languages.
Do Register your activity there and make it widely available to a global audience – and join the hundreds of activities going on round the world!

Annual Lunch Debate in European Parliament for World Hearing Day

You can register for the zoom-transmission here

“Changing Mindsets” is the global motto of this year’s World Hearing Day.

For EHIMA, Prof. Dr. Stefan Launer will give a presentation on how we can change mindsets on hearing care.

NEARLY HERE! CI2024
17th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
ON CI AND IMPLANTABLE DEVICES
GRAN CANARIA: CIICA WILL BE THERE!

Prof Angel Ramos and Prof Manuel Manrique are pleased to invite you to the largest CI conference in recent years, with the participation of experts from ALL OVER THE WORLD: “The 17^thInternational Conference on Cochlear Implants and other Implantable Technologies”– from 21^st – 24^th February 2024 at Auditorio Alfredo Kraus, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain)

See https://ciicanet.org/events/ci-2024-17th-international-conference-on-ci/ for further information and the amazing programme. CIICA will have several presentations and a stand where we hope to meet some of you!

NEW INFORMATION FROM THE UK RE DEAF CHILDREN AND EDUCATION

CRIDE reports (2015-2023) – BATOD These figures are unique in the world and helpfully monitor where deaf children are attending school. For example for 2023 we see that 2% of deaf children use British Sign language – and 89% use spoken English and the majority attend mainstream schools. The majority of children with profound deafness have CI.

RESOURCES FOR ADVOCACY WORK

SUMMARIES OF ALL OUR FASCINATING CONVERSATIONS are now easy to find! Go to https://ciicanet.org/events/list-of-summaries/ and find them by topic. The issues which have arisen from them all are fascinating and globally relevant for advocacy work. They can be used by you – just refer to the CIICA website.

RESOURCES AVAILABLE FROM CIICA are also now listed in one place to make them easy to find. You will find them by topic and full details at https://ciicanet.org/resources/ All are downloadable and some in other languages.

More community members’ resources at https://ciicanet.org/community/advocacy-resources/

CIICA IS ON LINKEDIN!

CIICA is now active on LinkedIn! We invite you to visit our page and hit that ‘Follow’ button to stay in the loop with our latest updates!

In case you haven’t already, please consider following us on Twitter as well