Declarations
Poznan Declaration 2023
London Declaration 2017
Essen Declaration 2015
Prague Declaration 2013
Publications
2025
Statement: Telecoils to stay as the integral feature of hearing devices
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!
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
The history of person-centred hearing care, by Lidia Best and Mark Laureyns (ENT & Audiology News)
2022
Access to Universal Hearing Healthcare is a Human Right
State of Provision of Hearing Aids in Europe (2022)
2021
Listening to the “Sound of Life”, by Lidia Best (G3ict)
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
EFHOH Guide to the European Accessibility Act: What You Need to Know
EFHOH Accessibility 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
