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 What is the Phonak Children Program? (PCP) The Phonak Children Program is an initiative that has the main goal to communicate and improve aid corrections possibilities for children with hearing disease. Through the same Program, Phonak tries to promote an adequate and complete line of services, in order to guarantee a better technical and professional efficiency in the attention provided to children with hearing loss. To who is PCP addressed to? Phonak wishes to actively cooperate with the best professionals, specialists, administrative authorities, parents and different liaisons or associatons. What are the PCP’s main goals? To support and work on projects that seek as primary cause, the improvement of quality in education, through proper hearing aid fitting and a holistic approach in intervention of children with hearing loss, that require technical aids in any form. Goals in regards to professionals:  To promote and develop a wider and better coverage of hearing aid fitting in children with mild to profound hearing loss. To support and involve specialists in the child’s oral and written language development, and the communication abilities acquired through residual hearing. To inform specialists of the best technological solutions available to minimize social communication barriers. To offer new technological solutions that are made available for hearing aid fitting and technical aids in FM systems for school and leisure settings. Goals in regards to administrative authorities and legislators: To generate debates regarding legislation to support lines of action that will benefit people with hearing loss in personal, educational and social settings. To investigate methods and develop protocols that will determine aided and unaided hearing capacity in children. To promote courses of action that will lead to early diagnosis and intervention, in both audiological and educational aspects, due to the hearing loss in children. To train professionals in a wider and better use of resources and methods that can be used in audiological, educational and social intervention, as well as in complementary means of communication between deaf and the hearing. Goals in regards to parents: To support family orientation and intervention within a prompt attention to parents of children with hearing loss and throughout the whole hearing aid fitting process. To establish communication and information among parents, about the best technical or technological solutions that can help or cooperate in the minimization of communication barriers. To organize events that may involve and allow the collaboration of multidisciplinary teams of professionals with parents. To defend strategies, educational options and forms of intervention for the child with hearing loss that will promote access to education and communication. To cooperate with parents of children with hearing loss in activities and associations. To offer collaboration and support to parents dealing with emotional distress, in order to reach “normality” within family and social settings. |
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