The kindergarten and school years are a time full of learning for the whole family, but above all they are a wonderful and varied time. Many parents say after their children finish school: "Those were the golden years!". After years of experience, affected parents know only too well that these years can often lead through rocky paths, despite their child receiving optimal hearing care. But today they also know which paths to take to ensure that an affected child masters these important learning years happily and enriched.
Some of these parents would like to share their personal experiences and knowledge with you. Here you will find opportunities for personal contact with parents and self-help initiatives.
Hearing consultant
To the Team Höribald team also includes parents who are available to answer your questions or concerns online, by phone or in person. They have all agreed to share their experience and knowledge with others who are just starting out on their journey and may therefore be valuable contacts for you and your family.
Self-help groups & initiatives
Helping other people and getting socially involved, makes you happy. This has even been scientifically proven. It boosts your self-esteem, you enjoy the gratitude and recognition and you feel a sense of solidarity with others. Those who help others and are socially committed therefore yourself as well as other people.
There are also many people who would like to share their positively mastered fate with others by making their experiences and knowledge available.
These self-help groups and initiatives are available at various locations to provide you with advice and support:
Association for the promotion and counseling of hearing-impaired children and children with Usher syndrome
The "Austrian Society for Implantable Hearing Aids" - founded in 1992
Therapy/support and counseling center for hearing-impaired children, adolescents and adults
A network of sufferers, relatives, doctors, psychologists, interested parties and many more.
The Forum Usher Deafblind is a self-help association for people with Usher syndrome and hearing impairments of various degrees, including deafblindness.
Community of Parents and Friends of The Hearing Impaired
Self-help group for hearing-impaired children and young people
Self-help group for the hearing impaired in central Lower Austria
THE meeting place for young adults with hearing impairments who communicate with each other in spoken language.
The ÖSB is an independent umbrella organization of and for hearing impaired associations and organizations of hearing impaired people in Austria.
The Austrian Self-Help for the Hard of Hearing wants to develop forms of meeting and sharing experiences together with affected hard of hearing people and thus offer help for self-help.
Cochlear implant self-help group
https://www.selbsthilfe-salzburg.at/selbsthilfegruppen/taub-und-trotzdem-hoeren
Project vonOhrzuOhr - your free and non-binding hub for hearing loss in Upper Austria!
The VOX organization acts as a contact point for ALL hearing-impaired people for whom spoken-language communication and the use of hearing aids (either hearing aids or CIs) are of primary importance.