2022 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Virtual Conference
March 13 - 15, 2022
10/13/2017 | 9:10 AM - 10:10 AM | Do hearing aids improve lives? | West Ballroom at Shalala Student Services Building
Do hearing aids improve lives?
World Wide Hearing Foundation International ("World Wide Hearing") conducted a research study in Guatemala to measure the impact of providing hearing aids on mental health, poverty and quality of life in a low-income population. In the study, 200 people received hearing aids and were compared against a control group of 200 people without hearing loss, over a 9-month period. This was the first such study ever conducted in a developing country.
World Wide Hearing also looked at the lives of people with hearing loss prior to obtaining a hearing aid in order to understand the challenges they face. The presentation will share the key findings from this study, along with some surprising challenges and lessons learned.
The full impact study report can be found below and World Wide Hearing encourages CGHH members to disseminate the results: http://www.wwhearing.org/uploads/pages/Impact_Study_Final_Report.pdf. World Wide Hearing would like to thank its partners, Smiles that Listen in Guatemala and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, for their collaboration on this action-based research to advance the field of hearing loss.
- Learn about the quantified impact of hearing aids on mental health, poverty and quality of life
- Best practices and lessons learned while running the hearing aid impact research
- Discuss further research needed
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Presenters/Authors
Youla Pompilus-Touré
(), World Wide Hearing Foundation International, youla@wwhearing.org;
Youla Pompilus-Toure oversees the portfolio of international projects at World Wide Hearing. Prior to joining World Wide Hearing, she built an expertise enhancing organizational capacity to engage with vulnerable populations. For the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, CARE International, UNICEF and others, Youla led programs to protect human rights and provided guidance to improve the quality and accountability of humanitarian programming. She has worked in Turkey, Madagascar, Haiti, Burundi and Bolivia. She has also conducted advocacy at the United Nations to mobilize support on issues of post-conflict peace-building and gender-based violence. Youla holds an M.A. in Conflict Resolution from the University of Bradford, where she was a Rotary World Peace Fellow, and a Bachelor of Commerce from McGill University.
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