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The handle http://hdl.handle.net/1887/19779 holds various files of this Leiden University dissertation.

Author: Wiefferink, Karin

Title: Cochlear implants in children : development in interaction with the social context

Date: 2012-09-13

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Curriculum Vitae

Karin Wiefferink was born on the 22th of December 1959 in Denekamp. After

finishing Atheneum B at Thij College in Oldenzaal in 1978, she started the in-

service training for X-ray technician at the Teaching Hospital in Utrecht. After

graduating in 1980, she started to study Dutch language and literature at the

University of Utrecht in 1981. She graduated in 1987 and shortly after that she

started working at the X-ray department of the Teaching Hospital of the Free

University in Amsterdam as an X-ray technician. In 1989 she became in-service

teacher of X-ray technician students at the same department. In 1991, she started

to study Educational Sciences at the University of Amsterdam, where she

graduated in 1995. Her research career started in 1993 at the research center

primary-secondary health care, also in the Teaching Hospital of the Free

University, first as a research assistant and in 1996 as a researcher. In 1999 she

became a researcher at TNO, a research institute in Leiden, where she focused

on implementation research and health promotion research. In 2007 she started

as senior researcher at NSDSK, the Dutch Foundation for the Deaf and Hard of

Hearing Child, where she conducted the research presented in this thesis.