Child hearing foundation
| Child foundation | |
|---|---|
| Legal form: | non-profit foundation under private law |
| Purpose: | The promotion of projects which, with special consideration of hearing acoustics, serve the well-being of the hearing impaired, especially that of hearing impaired children. |
| Chair: | Chairman of the Board of Directors: Gottfried Diller, Chairman of the Board of Trustees: Frans JH Geelen |
| Consist: | since September 25, 1976 |
| Founder: | Käthe and Theodor Geers |
| Foundation capital: | approx. 500,000 euros |
| Number of employees: | none, is administered by the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft, Essen |
| Seat: | Großburgwedel / Hanover |
| Website: | kind-hoerstiftung.de/ |
The Kind-Hörstiftung ( Geers Foundation until 2017 ) is a non-profit foundation under private law founded in 1976 by the Dortmund entrepreneur couple Käthe and Theodor Geers to promote research projects that serve the welfare of the hearing impaired ( hearing impairment , hearing impairment ), especially hearing impaired children ( § 2 Articles of Association). The foundation's assets are around 500,000 euros and the annual funding volume is around 30,000 euros.
Every two years since 1990, the foundation has awarded a sponsorship award worth 15,000 euros, which honors work on root cause research, early detection and therapy of hearing damage.
Every two years, multidisciplinary colloquia are held on key topics in research into the hearing impaired.
The foundation is affiliated with the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft eV.
organization
Käthe and Theodor Geers, who opened the first hearing aid specialist shop in Germany in 1951 and thus contributed to establishing the profession of hearing aid acoustician , founded the non-profit Geers Foundation on September 25, 1976 for the 25th anniversary of the Geers Hörakustik company to support cooperative and individual research projects solely through private initiative.
On June 1, 2017, the foundation was handed over to the Kind family (see child hearing aids ).
The chairman of the board is Gottfried Diller, other board members are Thomas Lenarz , Sebastian Hoth, Annerose Keilmann, Andrej Kral, Peter Plath and Hellmut von Specht . The board of trustees (board of trustees) are Alexander Kind and Martin Kind .
The foundation's assets are administered by the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft.
activities
The task of the foundation is, in accordance with the available funds, in particular to promote scientific studies in the field of hearing acoustics, series and test examinations to obtain basic scientific material, training and further education measures for people with normal hearing, the hearing impaired and people who are in the service of hearing acoustics Deepening knowledge that serves the hearing impaired, scientific testing of new methods in the field of hearing acoustics, events and measures that serve the foundation's purpose - this includes in particular the implementation of multidisciplinary symposia and colloquia - as well as publications, lectures and other public relations measures, related to the topics of the foundation.
Foundation award
For outstanding work in the field of root cause research, the early detection and therapy of hearing damage as well as the fitting and supply of hearing aids , especially for children, the foundation awards the endowment prize of 15,000 euros every two years. The award went to:
- 1990: New perspectives for the examination and early detection of hearing impaired children with special consideration of a prenatal hearing test - Heidrun Müller, senior physician at the Clinic for Otorhinolaryngology at the University of Leipzig
- 1994: “... I hear - not everything!” Hearing impaired girls and boys in mainstream schools - René J. Müller, director of the deaf and speech healing schools in Riehen and Arlesheim near Basel
- 1996: Influence of sound deprivation on the acoustically evoked potentials and the expression of the c-Fos transcription process after exposure to sound during the auditory pathway maturation of the rat - Annerose Keilmann, University Ear, Nose and Throat Clinic in the Clinic of the City of Mannheim, Faculty of Clinical Medicine of the Ruprecht-Karls -University of Heidelberg
- 1998: Experimental evidence of audiophonic feedback in infants and its importance for early detection and hearing aid fitting in congenitally severely hard of hearing people - R. Schönweiler, Senior Physician at the Hannover Medical School
- 2000: On the influence of hearing disorders on the maturation of the auditory pathway - M. Walger, Clinic and Polyclinic for Otorhinolaryngology at the University Hospital Cologne
- 2002: Newborn hearing screening - Katrin Neumann , senior physician at the Clinic for Phoniatrics and Pedaudiology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, and genetic research in the inner ear - Timo Stöver, senior physician at the ENT clinic at MHH
- 2004: not awarded
- 2006: New developments in speech intelligibility tests - Kirsten Carola Wagener, Dipl.-Phys. Head of Audiology and Projects at the Oldenburg Hearing Center
- 2008: not awarded
- 2010: Psychoacoustic and electrophysiological examinations of central auditory processing disorders during child development - Alexandra Ludwig, Phoniatrics and Audiology Section at the Leipzig University Hospital
- 2012: Connection between congenital hearing disorders and cardiac arrhythmias - Hanno J. Bolz, human geneticist at Cologne University Hospital
- 2014: "Resuscitation" of nerve cells in the inner ear believed to be dead - Athanasia Warnecke, Hannover Medical School, and optimized measurement method for the detection of previously undiscovered hearing impairments in newborns - Anthony W. Gummer, Ernst Dalhoff and Denniszell, University of Tübingen
- 2016: New measurement methods and models for the importance of residual hearing after a cochlear implant fitting - Tobias Rader
Colloquia
Since 1981, the foundation has held multidisciplinary colloquia every two years . The results will be published in a series of 19 volumes in total. Scientists and practitioners from home and abroad discuss medical, social and educational problems of hearing disorders, especially the issue of children's hearing disorders. The results of the exchange of experiences are published in a series of publications that can be obtained from the foundation. The foundation's newest volume, Volume 19, documents the lectures and discussions of the 16th multidisciplinary colloquium on the subject of listening culture .
Promotion of research
So far, the foundation has given grants for more than 80 research projects from the foundation's income.
- 1978 CVC audiometry
- 1979 hearing aids on the pathological ear
- 1979 eardrum impedance
- 1980 Audiometric examination of school children
- 1981 Early registration of hearing impairments
- 1981 hearing aid fitting with life language
- 1982 Early diagnosis of hearing impaired infants and toddlers
- 1984 Speech therapy support with SFT
- 1984 Therapeutic influence on language development
- 1985 Mechanics of the Ear
- 1985 Audiometric infant screening
- 1986 rehabilitation for inner ear implants
- 1986 Speech-Color Image Transformation (SFT)
- 1988 Wind noise under motorcycle helmets
- 1988 Advantages of directional microphones in hearing aids
- 1988 Screening - central deafness
- 1989 Aural language acquisition and acceptance of hearing aids
- 1989 Otoacoustic emissions
- 1990 pilot study for the adaptation of the test "CPHI"
- 1993 Language acquisition by severely hearing impaired
- 1996 Neurotransmitter of the hearing system
- 1997 Communication problems of hard of hearing adults
- 1997 Göttingen Hör-Sprachregister
- 1997 Hearing and language development during the U7
- 1998 Diagnostics accompanying rehabilitation for CI patients
- 1999 Tinnitus coping training
- 1999 Molecular Analysis of Pendred Syndrome
- 1999 Psychosoz. Care needs of families of children with hearing aids
- 1999 Education for the hearing impaired
- 2000 Influence of hearing disorders on the maturation of the auditory pathway
- 2001 CI patients with prelingual deafness
- 2002 families of children with hearing aids
- 2003 Causal therapy for hydrops diseases of the inner ear
- 2003 New therapy strategies for the inner ear
- 2004 Postnatal development of the neurophysiology of hearing
- 2004 Infants with hearing problems during newborn hearing screening
- 2005 Hearing impairment among residents of inpatient care for the elderly
- 2005 Psychoacoustic investigations into the cause of disturbed temporal integration and its consequences
- 2005 Care situation of hearing impaired elderly people in facilities of the elderly
- 2005 Status of the provision of hearing aids for older hearing impaired people
- 2006 Investigation of the effects of blood in the canals of the inner ear on hearing
- 2006 Phonological information processing as a predictor of written language acquisition in children with hearing aids
- 2006 Oral language acquisition by congenital hearing impaired children
- 2006 Psychoacoustic study of music perception in patients with CI and hearing aid wearers
- 2007 Prevention of senile hearing loss through acoustic stimulation
- 2008 Establishment of the NHS Germany network
- 2008 The role of the molecular chaperone HSP70 in otoprotection
- 2009 Identification of new gene locations in consanguineous families with congenital hearing impairment
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 22, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 22, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.kind-hoerstiftung.de/ueber-uns/stiftungsorgane/
- ↑ https://www.kind-hoerstiftung.de/foerderung/kind-stiftungspreis/
- ↑ Better hearing quality for the hard of hearing , hamburgnews.info; accessed on February 15, 2014
- ↑ Audio info. In: audio-infos.de. March 4, 2016, accessed March 13, 2016 .
- ↑ Series of publications by the GEERS FOUNDATION ( Memento from March 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
