Our aims and vision
The vision of USAIS:
To make life-changing hearing technology available to everyone who can benefit from it. The aspiration is that this is done in an environment that supports and empowers people with implants. USAIS is committed to enabling people with implants to hear as well as possible. USAIS does this through discovery research and evidence-based practice that ensures new findings are shared with patients and translate into practice.
Our aim:
To establish an active and enduring patient, parent, and carer group whereby a partnership is created between the researchers and the patients and carers which empowers the members of the group to contribute to important research and make a difference for those people with hearing loss and their families.
Our main drivers:
To improve outcomes for people with hearing loss and/or a cochlear implant.
Through research, involvement, and engagement.
To increase the awareness of hearing loss and cochlear implants and to increase access to cochlear implants.
Through public involvement and engagement.
How could you be involved?
Partner = a member of the public who work in partnership with researchers to get the best results possible.
Contributor = a member of the public who is actively involved in research.
Participant = a member of the public who is taking part in a research study.
What does being involved in our group mean?
- Participation in activities and meetings, in-person or online
- Identifying the issues that matter to children, young people and adults who have hearing loss.
- Exploring how issues raised might be prioritized and how to turn these into research questions.
- Helping to turn a question into a project and working out how to make it happen.
- Understanding how questions can be asked and answered using information that has already been collected.
- Exploring what this might mean for people who want to take part.
- Exploring whether you could be a hearing loss or cochlear implant ambassador.
