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:
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- 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 (Vice-President of EURO-CIU, member of CIICA), Finland and
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”