PORA! 04.06. Hearing impaired children who have grown up – how not to justify the fears of parents?

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We would like to invite you to the  PORA! “Hearing impaired children who have grown up – how not to justify the fears of parents?”
What topics are of particular concern to parents of children with hearing impairment? How does this affect their future?

These and other questions will be answered by:
– Qais Khan (CI user, CIICA)
– Maria Denisenko (HA user, team KI;SA)
– Maria Pavlova (mother of a child with CI, team KI;SA)

When: Sunday 4 June
16.00 Berlin time (CET)/ 17.00 Moscow time
Participation is free
Language: English, translate into Russian
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PORA! 21.05. “Choice of CI as an adult – doubts and decisions”

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We would like to invite you to the  PORA! “ Choice of CI as an adult – doubts and decisions”.
The story of the journey of CI will be shared by:

    • Robert Mandara (Vice-President of EURO-CIU, member of CIICA), Finland and
      members of the KI;SA team, Russia:
    • Alexandra Kharina
    • Ksenia Vorotnikova


Robert Mandara, 54
British but living in Finland since 1996
Born with congenital sensorineural deafness.
First hearing aid at age 4, with tinnitus starting at around the same time.
Attended mainstream school and university – Electronic and Electrical Engineering.
Employed as a Senior Technical Writer.
Right ear was implanted in 2014 and the left ear in 2016, with Cochlear brand implant and N6 processors.
Active CI advocate: Vice-President of EURO-CIU since 2019, a full member of CIICA, peer support person in Finland, volunteer at European Friendship Week for young CI users

Ksenia Vorotnikova
Sensorineural hearing loss, has worn HA all her life, in 2018 – CI surgery on the left ear. CI and HA user.
She finished high school in Astrakhan and graduated from the State University of Geodesy and Cartography, Faculty of Architecture. Employed in a large design office as an architect. Member of the KI;SA team.

Alexandra Kharina
hearing loss since childhood, she used HA as a child, one CI at the age of 29, knows sign language. Education and work: training in a special kindergarten, Leongard method, school for children with  hearing impairments, attended a regular school in the USA by grant, National Research University of Higher School of Economics. Employed in a large manufacturing company.
Experience in dealing with the hard of hearing and deaf: the ROOI “Perspektiva”, Business Council on Disability Issues,  on the rights of the hearing impaired in Strasbourg, volunteer work in the youth movement “Team KI;SA”

 

PORA! 14.05. Forum-Discussion with Kathrin König

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We would like to invite you to the Forum-Discussion PORA! on May 14 at 16.00 Berlin time (CET).
Topic “The “Höronauten” – pre-school group with a focus on promoting hearing ” is presented by Kathrin König from Germany.  She will also answer your questions. Send them in advance by leaving a comment here or by sending an email to liubov.wolowik@lehnhardt-academy.net

Kathrin König has been working since 2013 at the Interregional Early Support Centre for children with hearing impairment of the BLWG e.V. (professional association for people with hearing and speech impairment) in Munich.

You can watch the presentation as pdf
Recording of the webinar PORA! 30.04. The “Höronauten”:

 

Profile: Kathrin König

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2010-2013 employed at the pedagogical-audiological Centre for counseling and early intervention in Munich
2013  has been working at the Interregional Early Support Centre for children with hearing impairment of the BLWG e.V. (professional association for people with hearing and speech impairment) in Munich

– Work content:
o Early Intervention Mobile Service in the southeast of Upper Bavaria
o Caring for children with all degrees of hearing loss as well as CODA (Children of Deaf Adults) and their families
o Since 2015 – implementation and development of the pre-school group “Höronauten”

EDUCATION
2008 Diploma in special needs education at the Catholic Institute of Applied Sciences for Social Work, Berlin.
Diploma thesis in cooperation with the integrative Childcare Center
2007 practical semester at a multi-faceted Centre of Early Intervention in Berlin
2006 practical semester at an integrative kindergarten with a bilingual concept (sign and spoken languages), Berlin

PORA! 30.04. The “Höronauten” – pre-school group with a focus on promoting hearing

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We invite you to PORA! The “Höronauten” – pre-school group with a focus on promoting hearing  on 30.04. at 16.00 Berlin time with Kathrin König from Germany.

You will ask “Excuse me, Hearingnauts? What is that?”
At the interregional early intervention center for children with hearing impairments in Munich, these are the girls and boys who take part in the pre-school group. With this offer, preparing for school is a little bit different.
It’s not about exercises for writing and numbers, but about strengthening the children with regard to their own hearing situation.
What is important for a (pre)school child with hearing aids/CIs or CODA to know? In their “hearing peer group”, the children deal with this topic in a playful way and acquire important skills.
As part of the webinar, our expert will share experiences from several years of Höronauten with you and present some content and background.

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

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Profile: Tobias Fischer

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Tobias Fischer, MSc was the first child in Germany to receive a cochlear implant. The surgery was performed by Prof. Ernst Lehnhardt in 1988.

Tobias was born in 1984 in Wetzlar, Germany. At the age of three, he lost his hearing after contracting bacterial meningitis.
With the support of his parents, Dr Bodo Bertram and the early intervention center in Friedberg, he learned to hear and speak again.
With his cochlear implant, he was able to attend a regular school.
He then completed an apprenticeship as a communications electronics technician and studied at the University of Applied Sciences Gießen Friedberg.
He graduated with a B.Eng. in Microsystems Technology and Electronics.
In 2007, he received his second Cochlear Implant in Frankfurt a.M..
During his studies, he met his future wife and moved to Vienna in 2009 to live with her.
From 2011-2013 Tobias completed a part-time Master’s degree in Innovation and Technology Management with the title MSc.
Since 2009 he has been working for an aerospace company as a systems engineer.

In his spare time, he provides support to other CI users and hearing impaired people as a Cochlear volunteer and as a member of the Austrian Cochlear Implant Society (ÖCIG).

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