The Ida Institute is looking forward to expanding its work with cochlear implants this year. This will include hosting a seminar, “Successes, Gaps and Challenges in CI Rehabilitation: The CI Journey for Children and Their Families.” The focus of the seminar will be the patient experience, exploring the needs of children with CIs and their families.
The seminar was developed in collaboration with a faculty of internationally respected CI professionals, Christine Yoshinaga-Itano (USA), Lone Percy-Smith (DK), Ruth Bourne (SA) and Sue Archbold (UK).
Discussions and materials will take into consideration not only the shock and grief experienced as a result of the child’s diagnosis of hearing loss, but also the concerns about cochlear implants as a treatment from the surgery through the year-long rehabilitation period. At the seminar, participants will explore the patient journey from the perspectives of both patients and parents as well as professionals including surgeons, ENTs, audiologists and others involved in the child’s rehabilitation.
The goal of the seminar is to identify concrete tools to meet the needs of children with CIs and their families. To do this, invited participants will explore the relationship between patients and clinicians, investigate how CI rehabilitation works today in different parts of the world and identify critical gaps, and define what a successful journey would look like from the perspectives of patients, families, and professionals.
Participants confirmed for the seminar are (in alphabetical order):
- Amy Szarkowski, Boston Children's Hospital, USA
- Anneke Vermeulen, Hearing & Implants, Holland
- Ayca Ciprut, Marmara University School of Medicine, Turkey
- Barbara Esser-Leyding, Cochlear Implant Centrum Wilhelm Hirte, Germany
- Bertrand Phillipon, Oticon Medical, France
- Beth Atkinson, Here and Say, Australia
- Carolyn Edwards, Auditory Management Services, Canada
- Christina Ahler, Center for Communication and Welfare Technologies, Denmark
- Haihong Liu, Capital Medical University, China
- Kalyani Mandke, Mandke Hearing Services, India
- Lucas Costa, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Margreet Langereis, Hearing & Implants, Holland
- Nancy Muscato, University of South Florida, USA
- Neeraj Kumar, Canossian School, Singapore
- Ronel Chester-Brown, Ear Science Institute, Australia
- Sarah Baumann, University of Southampton, UK
- Surida Booysen, Carel Du Toit Center, South Africa
- Tina Ibertsson, Lund University, Sweden
- Tove Rosenbom, Oticon Medical, Denmark
- Vivian Gies, York Regional District School Board, Canada
“Successes, Gaps and Challenges in CI Rehabilitation: The CI Journey for Children and Their Families” will take place in Denmark 26-28 April.