The opportunity to make direct contact with other users or to exchange ideas in the group is immeasurably important, especially at the beginning of your journey to hearing.
Whether it's a personal conversation or sharing your worries, wishes and experiences in the community, here you will find a comprehensive list of contacts to self-help groups and initiatives as well as personal contacts who have gladly made themselves available for our website as advisors and to share their experiences - because hearing connects!
Hearing consultants
The Höribald team includes users and relatives 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 make us as humans happy. This has even been scientifically proven. It strengthens our self-esteem, we are happy about the gratitude and recognition and we feel a sense of solidarity with one another. Those who help others and are socially committed do just as much good for themselves as they do for other people.
Many people also want to share their positively mastered fate with others by making their experiences and knowledge available to others.
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.