Presentation

PORA! 26.02. Forum-Discussion with Tobias Fischer

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We would like to invite you to the Forum-Discussion PORA! on February 26 at 15.00  Berlin time (CET).
Topic «My journey into the world of hearing» is presented by Tobias Fischer from Austria. He will also  answer your questions. Tobias received his first CI in 1988 and was the first child in Germany to receive a cochlear implant. He studied at the University of Applied Sciences Gießen Friedberg in Germany and has been working vor 14 years for an aerospace company as a systems engineer. He supports ÖCIG (Austrian Cochlear Implant Society) as a volounteer.
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PORA! 29.01. Austrian Cochlear Implant Society (ÖCIG — Österreichische Cochlear-Implant-Gesellschaft)

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We invite you to PORA! on 29.1.23 with MSc.Tobias Fischer. —>Profile<—
He was the first child in Germany to receive a cochlear implant. The surgery was performed by Prof. Ernst Lehnhardt in 1988. Tobias studied at the University of Applied Sciences Gießen Friedberg in Germany and has been working vor 14 years for an aerospace company as a systems engineer. He supports as a volounteer the ÖCIG

You can watch the presentation as pdf

✅Very personal journey into hearing  – his first CI he has had for 35 years now (1st CI in 1988, 2nd CI in 2007)

✅Comments of the teacher for the deaf – Dr. Bodo Bertram (head of the rehabilitation center in Hanover, worked with 1400 children with CI over a period of > 30 years and saw their results  long.term)
✅Short videos – before surgery, therapy with Dr. Bodo Bertram (1990)
✅History of the Austrian Cochlear Implant society ÖCIG
✅Goals of the ÖCIG
✅Social and cultural activities
✅Hosting educational events and workshops
✅Events in 2022 (conferences, workshops, 30th anniversary of ÖCIG, etc.)
✅Events in 2023:
– a project «Listen up», aiming at initiating a campaign raising awareness of consequences of deafness
– project “Easy Rehabilitation”. Aim of the project: To develop a concept of stationary rehabilitation
✅Services for ÖCIG Members
✅Cooperation with CI and HA companies
✅Interaction, exchange of experience with specialists, societies in the field of hearing
✅Representing ÖCIG at the EURO-CIU (European Cochlear Implant Users Association) conference in Rotterdam in 2022

✅Contacts

PORA! 15th January «Product presentation: implantable hearing and bone conduction solutions»

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Welcome to our first PORA Webinar in the New Year 2023!

Our speaker — Gaby Thierbach — will introduce us to various implantable hearing and bone conduction solutions, she will talk about her work in clinics and share her experiences as a mother of a son with CI.

 Gaby Thierbach joined the Australian company Cochlear 30 years ago, two years after Prof. Ernst Lehnhardt provided her son with a Cochlear Implant in Hannover.
In the same year (1991) already she founded a self-help group for parents of hearing-impaired children and she launched  the initiative «I want to hear» in Germany.
1995 she relocated to Lucerne / Switzerland so that her son could enjoy the therapy of the world-renowned teacher Susann Schmid-Giovannini (PORA! DECEMBER’22)

Among the outstanding achievements of her now more than 30 years of professional activities are:
— support Prof. Ernst Lehnhardt and Prof. Roland Laszig introducing CI programmes in Turkey, Spain and Greece
— active support of the introductory campaign for Baha in Switzerland
— consulting during surgical interventions in various clinics in Switzerland
— organization of conferences and workshops on various topics including rehabilitation for different target groups
— launching the DVD «Hören mit CI» (individual version developed in collaboration with clinics in Switzerland based on «I want to hear» initiative for potential CI candidates and parents)
—  Participation with final exam in the Comenius program QUESWHIC, organized by the Lehnhardt foundation and financially supported by EU

PORA! Forum Discussion 11.12. with Susann Schmid-Giovannini and Emilia Leongard

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There are only very few educators for hearing impaied children from German-speaking Central Europe and Russia whose names are well-known and highly respected all over the world. We cordially invite you to participate in the forum-discussion on December 11 with the teacher for early intervention Susann SCHMID-GIOVANNINI from Austria and the scientist-therapist for the hearing impaired/surdopedagogue Emilia LEONGARD from Russia. Both ladies have been working persistently, consistently and successfully in early hearing and speech education for hearing-impaired children in Switzerland respectively Russia for several decades. They are two of the great ladies in contemporary international and interdisciplinary education for the hearing impaired.

Es gibt nur sehr wenige Hörgeschädigtenpädagogen aus dem deutschsprachigen Mitteleuropa und Russland, deren Namen man in aller Welt kennt und mit Hochachtung nennt. Wir laden Sie herzlich ein, an der Forum- Diskussion am 11. Dezember mit der Frühpädagogin Susann SCHMID-GIOVANNINI aus Österreich und der Wissenschaftlerin-Hörtherapeutin/Surdopädagogin Emilia LEONGARD aus Russland teilzunehmen. Beide Damen arbeiten seit mehreren Jahrzehnten in der Schweiz bzw. Russland beharrlich, konsequent und erfolgreich in der frühen Hör-Spracherziehung für hörgeschädigte Kinder. Sie sind zwei der großen Frauengestalten der internationalen und interdisziplinären Hörgeschädigtenpädagogik der Gegenwart.

 

PORA! 27.11. “Telepractice in the CI journey. One size does not fit all”

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We invite you to PORA! on 27.11.22 at 15.00 CET with Colleen Psarros from Australia.
Colleen has 33 years of experience in the cochlear implant field, she is working as a research coordinator in the Asia Pacific region for Cochlear. —>Profile<—

Telepractice in hearing health care was, in general,  highly underutilised until the COVID-19 pandemic. Barriers and facilitators for its use in CI service delivery prior to the pandemic were predominantly organisationally based. Clinical models and protocols were structured around within clinic care with clinicians acting as the gatekeepers to accessing novel methods of care. With the pivot to telepractice due to the pandemic we have identified the psychosocial factors that contribute to potential underutilisation of telepractice. In this session we will identify ways we can bridge existing gaps in use of a telepractice method of CI care, but most importantly identify ways users of CI and their families can access the model of care best suited to their needs.

PORA! Forum-Discussion on November 20th “Soon a school child! This is how we facilitate children with a hearing impairment the transition from kindergarten into school”

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At the meeting on Sunday, 20.11. at 15.00 (CET time) we will discuss the topics for which we did not have time at the last meeting:
  • Special needs preschool groups cases
  • Delayed enrolment (start) to educational establishment
  • First contact with the teacher

Gisela Batliner will answer your questions on this topic. Send them in advance by leaving a comment here or by sending an email to liubov.wolowik@lehnhardt-academy.net

PORA! November 6th “Soon a school child! This is how we facilitate children with a hearing impairment the transition from kindergarten into school»

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The above-mentioned topic will be presented by the German MA, clinical linguist and SLP Gisela Batliner at the Webinar that will take place on Sunday, November, 6. With 39 years of experience, her work is based on the Natural Auditory Oral Approach (NAOA by Morag Clark). Profile

This topic may be interesting for:
defectologists, speech therapists, teachers for the deaf, parents of children with hearing impairments,
educators and teachers of public general and specialized kindergartens and schools.

Key points on this topic:

  • Preparation for written language acquisition
  • Developing independent hearing aid use
  • Self-confidence
  • School vocabulary
  • Special needs preschool groups cases
  • Delayed enrolment (start) to educational establishment
  • First contact with the teacher

 

PORA! 09.10 «Cochlear Implants — Effective Treatment of Hearing Loss»

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Welcome to the PORA «Cochlear Implants — Effective Treatment of Hearing Loss»

The webinar will be led by Dr. Jiří Skřivan from the Czech Republic, who will answer your questions on this topic.
Jiří Skřivan, MD, PhD, is an ENT instructor and lecturer in otosurgery, skull base surgery, cochlear implantation and Baha surgery (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Romania, Malta, Palestine, Kuwait and Oman).
You can ask your questions in the comments section.

The last meeting with our expert was on June 12.  —>Watch the recording<—
Profile of Dr. Jiří Skřivan

PORA! 17.07 Webinar with Prof. Dr. A. Lesinski-Schiedat

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We invite you to take part in a webinar on July 17 with Prof. Dr. Lesinski-Schiedat.  Make sure not to miss this opportunity!
It will be the last PORA Webinar before the summer break and with our invited speaker Prof. Dr. Anke Lesinski-Schiedat we have one of the most experienced ENT experts in the field of CI.
She is senior physician at the Medical Highschool Hannover (MHH) — internationally renowned for having the world’s largest cochlear implant programme. This was established by Prof. Dr. Ernst Lehnhardt, who provided 4 adults with a multichannel CI – first in Europe! In 1984, in 1987 the first child post-meningitis and in 1988 the first deaf born child at the age of 1 ½ years. He also established the first CI rehabilitation Center in 1991.
When he retired in 1983,Prof. Thomas Lenarz became head of the ENT clinic.
Prof. Lesinski-Schiedat has 25 years of experience and a broad and profound knowledge which she will share with us.

Dr.Dr.h.c.Monika Lehnhardt-Goriany

Eva Bültmann and Anke Lesinski-Schiedat
MRI in Cochlear Implant Recipients: Correlation between Receiver Position and Artifact
Ann Otolaryngol Rhinol 8(4): 1278 (2021)

F. Matin, S. Haumann, W. Roßberg, D. Mitovska, T. Lenarz & A. Lesinski-Schiedat
Monitoring of the auditory pathway maturation after early intervention during the first year of life in infants with sensorineural hearing loss
European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology volume 278, pages 4187–4197 (2021)

Recording of webinar «Challenges and results in pediatric CI therapy»

 

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