2020
Conference ‘20 YEARS OF COCHLEAR IMPLANTS IN ESTONIA: DONE AND YET TO BE DONE’
The conference, co-organised by the Estonian Society of Audiology, the Society of Children with Cochlear Implants and NGO Audiere, will take place on 3 March – World Hearing Day.
The conference will be held in Sirius Hall in the Nordic Hotel Forum in Tallinn under the title ‘20 years of cochlear implants in Estonia: done and yet to be done’.
2020 marks twenty years since the first cochlear implant surgery in Estonia. In those twenty years, 191 new patients have been added to the list. Of these, 144 received their implants as children and 48 as adults. 44 patients underwent bilateral surgery, meaning they have implants in both ears.
Estonians with implants value them highly and they are becoming a popular solution with audiologists, even for adult patients. Still, new problems have arisen in connection with hearing loss in terms of the availability and quality of services, the development of education and information and other areas. These new problems require professional analysis and the development of new
solutions.
The aim of our conference is to find common ground between committed members of the community, patient organisations, policy-makers and professionals. An important goal is to realise the potential of all parties and involve them in dealing with the problems of people with implants and the hearing impaired.
Schedule
09:30 Welcome coffee
10:15 President of the Estonian Audiological Society Dr Maret Lepplaan: Opening speech
10:30 Minister of Social Affairs Mr Tanel Kiik: Welcome speech
10:45 Member of the United Kingdom House of Lords Sir Malcolm Bruce: Legislature creates laws for everyone. About the cross-party group established in UK Parliament in support of the deaf.
11:30 Introduction to the Sue Archbold – Spend to Save programme.
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Anton Zehentbauer, Cochlear: An overview of the technical development of implants in 20 years
14:00 Dr Katrin Kruustük, Tartu University Hospital Ear Clinic: Overview of cochlear implants in Estonia
14:30 Panel 1: Network consulting: Should we have peer support counselling for people with implants and the hearing impaired?
By peer support counselling, we also mean the so-called colleague-to-colleague approach.
In the panel, Piret Zimmer, Mari Reilson from Tartu University Hospital Ear Clinic and Regina Paabo from the University of Tartu will discuss whether school teachers need support services and, if so, which services?
Member of the Riigikogu and Deputy Chairman of the Social Affairs Committee of the Riigikogu Helmen Kütt: From the perspective of the legislator: developments in legislation concerning the deaf
15:30 Smoothie break
15:45 Panel 2: How to improve the availability and quality of service for the hearing impaired?
Deputy Chairman of the Social Affairs Committee of the Riigikogu Helmen Kütt, Dr Liina Luht.
Open microphone.
17:30 President of the Society of Children with Cochlear Implants Epp Müil: Closing remarks
17:45-19:00 Formal closing
Have a look at the pictures
The conference, co-organised by the Estonian Society of Audiology, the Society of Children with Cochlear Implants and NGO Audiere, will take place on 3 March – World Hearing Day.
The conference will be held in Sirius Hall in the Nordic Hotel Forum in Tallinn under the title ‘20 years of cochlear implants in Estonia: done and yet to be done’.
2020 marks twenty years since the first cochlear implant surgery in Estonia. In those twenty years, 191 new patients have been added to the list. Of these, 144 received their implants as children and 48 as adults. 44 patients underwent bilateral surgery, meaning they have implants in both ears.
Estonians with implants value them highly and they are becoming a popular solution with audiologists, even for adult patients. Still, new problems have arisen in connection with hearing loss in terms of the availability and quality of services, the development of education and information and other areas. These new problems require professional analysis and the development of new
solutions.
The aim of our conference is to find common ground between committed members of the community, patient organisations, policy-makers and professionals. An important goal is to realise the potential of all parties and involve them in dealing with the problems of people with implants and the hearing impaired.
Schedule
09:30 Welcome coffee
10:15 President of the Estonian Audiological Society Dr Maret Lepplaan: Opening speech
10:30 Minister of Social Affairs Mr Tanel Kiik: Welcome speech
10:45 Member of the United Kingdom House of Lords Sir Malcolm Bruce: Legislature creates laws for everyone. About the cross-party group established in UK Parliament in support of the deaf.
11:30 Introduction to the Sue Archbold – Spend to Save programme.
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Anton Zehentbauer, Cochlear: An overview of the technical development of implants in 20 years
14:00 Dr Katrin Kruustük, Tartu University Hospital Ear Clinic: Overview of cochlear implants in Estonia
14:30 Panel 1: Network consulting: Should we have peer support counselling for people with implants and the hearing impaired?
By peer support counselling, we also mean the so-called colleague-to-colleague approach.
In the panel, Piret Zimmer, Mari Reilson from Tartu University Hospital Ear Clinic and Regina Paabo from the University of Tartu will discuss whether school teachers need support services and, if so, which services?
Member of the Riigikogu and Deputy Chairman of the Social Affairs Committee of the Riigikogu Helmen Kütt: From the perspective of the legislator: developments in legislation concerning the deaf
15:30 Smoothie break
15:45 Panel 2: How to improve the availability and quality of service for the hearing impaired?
Deputy Chairman of the Social Affairs Committee of the Riigikogu Helmen Kütt, Dr Liina Luht.
Open microphone.
17:30 President of the Society of Children with Cochlear Implants Epp Müil: Closing remarks
17:45-19:00 Formal closing
Have a look at the pictures
