Audiere – Estonian Centre for Rehabilitation of Sensory Organs
(MTÜ EMERK Audiere,
Reg. nr. 80200262)

2011

Rocca al Mare School and Audiere’s joint project to help deaf children

On Friday 8 April, the final phase of the Rocca al Mare School and Audiere non-profit organisation joint project to collect money for cochlear implant purchases will begin. The school pupils, supervised by teacher Mari Viik, made birdhouses during the winter. Now they will be sold and the proceeds will be used to buy new cochlear implants for small children who are deaf. This coincides with the beginning of the eighth year of Audiere’s activities! We thank the pupils from Rocca al Mare School and their supervising teacher Mari Viik for cooperating with us in such a lovely way, and we encourage everyone to buy the birdhouses!

To buy a birdhouse, please get in touch with our board members by either calling or e-mailing us. The phone numbers and e-mail addresses are listed in the Contacts section.

Anne, Elis, Kristiina and Sirle

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Thank you for working with us in 2010!

This year we have decided to donate our Christmas gift money to charity. Our donation will support the work of the Audiere non-profit organisation, which was created to help deaf children: the money will be used to finance the purchase of a cochlear implant for a lovely 11-month old girl, Pauliine, who was born deaf.

Due to the cochlear implant, Pauliine will grow up in a world that has sound. She will go to an ordinary nursery and will then attend an ordinary school. The implant will change Pauliine’s life: she will become a hearer.

Thank you, dear colleagues. Happy New Year to you all!

Yours, the staff of Kalev Spa

Avo-Rein Tereping from Tallinn University and Sandra Vill from Tartu University Hospital Ear Clinic
were awarded the Audiology Scholarship for conducting a study of the hearing acuity of Estonian schoolchildren.

The aim of the study is to get an overview of hearing acuity and possible hearing loss among

Estonian schoolchildren. For this, an audiometric screening of Estonian schoolchildren will be

conducted. The target group are 9th grade students. The test group consist of 1000 school students.

Prior to the test, students will be given a 45-minute lecture on the causes of hearing loss and the

risks of hearing loss from listening to music with headphones and loud music in general. The lecture

will also go over general hearing hygiene. All test subjects will receive a non-personalised

(anonymous) written assessment of their hearing acuity as feedback. If the hearing loss is greater

than 30 dB, the parent will be notified.

The study will follow all requirements related to human studies. The personal data of the subject will

not be recorded. Only generalised and statistically processed data will be used for publication.

Descriptive statistical methods will be used to analyse the results of the screening test. The results

will be published in the journal Eesti Arst and in some international journals.

The study has been approved by the Ministry of Education and Research.

The study has been postponed due to the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.

On December 6 the Supervisory Board of the Aadu Luukas Foundation nominated the non-profit organisation Audiere to be one of the six nominees of the Missionary Prize of the Aadu Luukas Foundation in 2012.

This highly valued recognition is accompanied by a monetary award – 6,400 euros – that we have decided to allocate to the Audiology Scholarship Fund. Pursuant to the statutes of the Missionary Prize the award is given to a person or organisation that stands out as a promoter of the balanced development of Estonian society and our nation’s quality of life. By educating young agile audiologists we can fulfil this aim in a manner worthy of the award.

We are grateful to the honourable Supervisory Board for their trust and recognition, and we would like to thank all those who nominated us and all our partners and everyone who takes an active interest in our activities for their continuous support.