EFHOH Impact | Highlight Reports
AGM Declarations
- Brussels Declaration 2026
- Tallinn Declaration 2025
- Poznan Declaration 2023
- London Declaration 2017
- Essen Declaration 2015
- Prague Declaration 2013
Publications
2026
- From Policy to Practice: Advancing Hard of Hearing Inclusion Across Europe
Hear the Future: Breaking Barriers for an EU Strategy on Hearing Loss - Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Giving Voice to Hard of Hearing Women Leaders
- Hearing Loss Inclusive Employment Toolkit
- Closing the Employment Gap: EFHOH launches Inclusive Employment Toolkit (Policy Brief)
- Position Statement on Public Procurement of Hearing Devices and their Accessibility Features
2025
- European Accessibility Act – from consultation to implementation: a Hard of Hearing perspective
- Towards Inclusive Employment: Employment and Reasonable Accommodation for Hard of Hearing People in Europe
- Rights in Focus: Addressing Inclusion of Hard of Hearing Europeans (Event Report)
- EFHOH Alternative Report to the CRPD Committee in the framework of the EU Reporting before the CRPD Committee (2025)
2024
- AVMSD Implementation in Europe
- Open Letter to European Commissioner for Equality Hadja Lahbib: keep up the momentum on disability rights!
- Position Statement on Auracast and Telecoils: call for balanced approach
- Joint Statement Calling on Incoming EU Leadership to Prioritise Equality and Non-Discrimination
- Hard of Hearing Women and Girls in Europe
- Accessibility of Healthcare Services for people with hearing loss in Europe Report
- Getting the numbers right on Hearing Loss, Hearing Care and Hearing Aids Use in Europe – Joint AEA, EFHOH, EHIMA Report (2024)
- Joint EFHOH & AEA Position 2024
- A Step Forward for Disability Rights: the EU Disability Card Directive Approved
- Changing Mindsets on Hearing Loss and Mental Health
2023
2022
- Access to Universal Hearing Healthcare is a Human Right
- State of Provision of Hearing Aids in Europe (2022)
2021
2020
- Standards for Safe Listening – Past, Present and Future, by Masahito Kawamori, Lidia Best and Mark Laureyns (Hearing Review)
- Let Us Talk About Safe Listening with Personal Sound Amplifiers, by Lidia Best (G3ict)
- Getting the numbers right on Hearing Loss, Hearing Care and Hearing Aid Use in Europe – Joint AEA, EFHOH, EHIMA Report (2020)
- Standards for Safe Listening – how they align and how some differ, by Masahito Kawamori, Lidia Best and Mark Laureyns (ENT & Audiology News)
- Statement Regarding the Coronavirus and Hard of Hearing People
- Global Report of Covid-19’s Impacts on Hard of Hearing People
2019
- Live Captioning with Artificial Intelligence-Assisted Speech Recognition, by Lidia Best (G3ict)
- Hearing care systems in Europe – can we do more? By Lidia Best (ENT & Audiology News)
- Telecoil and Hearing Loop Obsolescence: 10-15 years and beyond
- Open Letter to the EU Institutions: We Demand Accessible European Elections 2019
2018
- EFHOH and ITU Joint Effort in Improving Hard of Hearing People Accessibility at Meetings, by Lidia Best (G3ict)
- WHO- World Hearing Day 2018 Activity Report
- How to prevent hearing loss and how to reduce its impact – Press Release
- Hearing care and hearing aids keep you independent! – Press Release
- The Ear Foundation Spend 2 Save Summary 2018
- State of Hearing Aids Provision in Europe 2018 Report
- Experiences of Late-Deafened People in Europe 2018 Report
2017
- Press Release – The Coalition on Hearing Loss and Disability Manifesto
- IFHOH and DSB Conference Statement 2017
- Hearing care systems – European examples, by Lidia Best (ENT & Audiology News)
- Lunch Debate European Parliament-Action for Hearing Loss-AEA Report 2017
- EFHOH Feedback on the European Commission’s Smart Wearables: Reflection and Orientation Paper
- Call for Action – The Coalition on Hearing Loss and Disability Manifesto
- Explanatory Notes – The Coalition on Hearing Loss and Disability Manifesto
- EFHOH AEA EHIMA: Joint Policy Paper 2017
2016
- Getting our Numbers Right- joint paper EHIMA/AEA/EFHOH 2016
- AEA Code of Conduct 2016
- EFHOH Survey – European Standard EN 15927:2010 Services offered by hearing aid professionals
- State of Hard of Hearing People’s Rights in the EU 2016 Report
- EFHOH in joint concern related to potential interference in relation to deploying of LTE radio frequencies (2300 – 2400 Hz)-adjacent to the ISM band
2015
- EFHOH/AEA Joint Report on Personal Sound Application Products (PSAPs)
- EFHOH State of Subtitling Access in EU Reports (2015)
- Hearing Loss Statistics – AGM 2015
EFHOH Guides and Guidelines
Toolkits
- EDF AVMS Directive 2019
- EDF Web and Apps Directive Toolkit 2017
- Toolkit for EU AVMS Directive for Accessibility (subtitling)
- IFHOH UN CRPD Toolkit
ITU Reports (Technical Documents)
International Telecommunication Union’s standardisation work is mainly based on its members contributing to agreed work on standards, through Technical Reports, Technical Standards and Global Recommendations.
EFHOH is involved in such work since 2015 and continues close collaboration as the President, Lidia Best, is now also the Head of the G3ict delegation to ITU. The G3ict delegation to ITU has been closely involved in this work with focus on accessibility of products and services.
Below, is the list of standards the delegation has been involved in:
Global Recommendations
- 2021 – WHO-ITU global standard for accessibility of telehealth services
- 2019 – H.871 Safe Listening Guidelines for Personal Sound Amplifiers
- 2018 – H.870 Guidelines for safe listening devices/systems
- 2018 – F.930 Multimedia telecommunication relay services
- 2018 – F.791 Accessibility Terms and Definitions
Technical Papers
- 2020 – FSTP.ACC-ALD – Overview of assistive listening systems
- 2019 – FSTP-ACC-RCS – Overview of remote captioning services
- 2015 – FSTP-AM – Guidelines for accessible meetings
- 2015 – FSTP-ACC – RemPart – Guidelines for supporting remote participation in meetings for all
