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The Ida Institute is an independent, non-profit organization working to integrate person-centered care into hearing rehabilitation. The Ida Institute offers a number of counseling tools and resources for hearing care professionals and web tools for people with hearing loss for free through its website.

History
The Ida Institute was founded in 2007 with a grant from the Oticon Foundation. The institute creates tools and resources to help hearing care professionals [link to audiology] bring person-centered care into their appointments. The Ida Institute uses innovation seminars and principles of design thinking and ethnography to develop their tools and resources. Tools and resources are available to Ida’s global community through a free membership. The institute has materials covering topics such as patient motivation, tinnitus , telehealth , and pediatrics.

Advisory Board
The Ida Advisory Board is composed of a group of nine members, which changes every two years. Members include leading academics, researchers, and clinicians. Current and past advisory members include:


 * Louise Hickson (Chairwoman)
 * Lucille Beck (Vice Chairwoman)
 * Uwe Hermann
 * Deborah Ferrari
 * DeWet Swanepoel
 * Christine Yoshinago-Itano
 * Melanie Gregory
 * Darcy Benson
 * Adrian Davis
 * Sophia Kramer
 * Claus Elberling
 * Dave Fabry
 * Robert Sweetow
 * Tine Tjørnhøj-Thomsen
 * Joe Montano
 * Patricia Kricos
 * Michele Clapin
 * Berth Danermark
 * Sue Archbold

Research Committee
In 2016, the Ida Institute established the Ida Research Committee to create a broader evidence base for Ida tools and person-centered methods. Each year, the Research Committee accepts and reviews proposals for new research projects and provides funding to select projects.