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