SoundStep

Ninety percent of babies who are deaf are born to parents with normal hearing. It is therefore understandable that most parents of babies with hearing impairment want their baby to talk. It is also understandable that parents expect their babies to talk as soon as hearing aids are fitted or cochl....

In these early days, you may well find yourself wondering how your deaf child can possibly understand anything you are saying because the only thing that is booming through your mind is “hearing loss”.

Use these tips to help you trust that your child does indeed understand....

For a generation that lives life at the speed of clicks, it is difficult to come to grips with the reality that children aren’t quite ‘clickable’. Young children need to be allowed time to learn and young deaf children perhaps need to be allowed a little more tim....

You are the most important element in the intervention for your hearing-impaired child. The key responsibility of the professionals who work with you and your family, will guide you to stay healthy, happy and well-rested so that your child receives the care s/he needs to develop spoken lan....

The presence of hearing loss means that you are going to have to choose how you wish to communicate with your child and how you would like your deaf child to communicate in turn. Your family may choose to raise your deaf child ....

In the early days of fitting your baby or young child with hearing aids, it is natural to wonder if s/he is hearing you and whether or not s/he really understands anything of what is being said. While this perspective is not unusual, it is critical that you discuss thi....

As you take your baby or young child through several appointments in Audiology, you are anxious to complete the testing procedure and obtain diagnostic information on the degree and type of he....

One of my lasting memories of the value of Auditory-Verbal Therapy for deaf children will be of toddlers tugging at their mothers’ clothes, urging them to read one more story.

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Listening First is a powerful technique in Auditory-Verbal Therapy that helps orient the deaf child to understand that listening signals an event. This means that the speaker dra....

Children with hearing loss who have been read to from infancy quickly develop a love of reading. Part II of this blog guides you to nurture this interest, as your g....

Numbers and numeracy skills come alive in the hustle and bustle of your everyday life! Don’t....

Experiencing Sound for the first time can be overwhelming. Device-activation (or switch-on) of cochlear-implanted children always reminds me of this.

In being connected to Sound for the first t....

I have had some families remark that their hearing-impaired child imitates most of what they say but does not necessarily answer questions as asked.....

I have had some families remark that their hearing-impaired child imitates most of what they say but does not necessarily answer questions as a....

“How do I chat with my toddler? She doesn’t really talk as yet.”

As parents....