Chevone Petersen: Parenting Requires Fluidity
“We didn’t spend four years in speech and language therapy for you to verbally communicate with ‘brb’ and ‘lol’”. “Don’t […]
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Hands & Voices Releases App for Families with Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children
Parents of children who are newly identified as deaf or hard of hearing, welcome home! We have an app for […]
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Travis Peterson: Figuring Out Fatherhood
I have been saying lately that I feel like an old dog learning new tricks. I’m turning 40 this year […]
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A Mother’s Journey: Changing “I Can’t” to “I Did”
“No way. I can’t do that…” This was my very first thought when a good friend looked me straight in […]
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Mandy Bangerter: A Letter to My Son
The following is a letter from Mandy Bangerter (WY Hands & Voices) to her son, Declan, on his sixth birthday. […]
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Valli Gideons: My Battle Call
Raising kids is hard. Add a diagnosis of hearing loss and you might find yourself thinking parenting is not for […]
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Rosabel Agbayani: The Road We Travel TOGETHER
The road we travel TOGETHER: Our Family Journey By Rosabel O. Agbayani, MPH “If you want to change the world, […]
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Rana Ottallah: Finding My Way Home
I have attended two Hands & Voices Leadership conferences and my first Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) conference. There […]
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Jessica Stern: JUST GOOGLE IT
“Information helps you to see that you’re not alone. That there’s somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who all […]
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Elizabeth Albers: Language in Any Form is a Beautiful Thing
We are the Albers Family, a homeschooling family of nine with two children who have severe to profound hearing loss. […]
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