Family Support, Parent Information

Hands & Voices Releases App for Families with Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children

November 23, 2020

Parents of children who are newly identified as deaf or hard of hearing, welcome home! We have an app for you! Hands & Voices Parent Support is designed especially for...

Parent Information

Masks, Covid, and Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students

August 5, 2020

If you do a search for “deaf students and masks” or “hard of hearing students and masks,” you’ll see that masks are a huge challenge for many deaf and hard...

Deaf & HH Adults, Parent Information

Carrie Spangler: Are My Eyes Smiling?

June 18, 2020

The pandemic has changed the way we leave our living spaces.  Wearing masks and physical distancing are common practices as the world navigates through reopening of our communities while keeping...

Parent Information, Thoughts on Parenting a Deaf Child

Moonlight Sonata: An Interview with Irene Taylor Brodsky

September 12, 2019

Irene Taylor Brodsky is the daughter of deaf parents and a mom to a deaf son. She’s also a Oscar-nominated (“The Final Inch”), Emmy and Peabody Award-winning filmmaker. Her newest documentary,...

Parent Information

For Parents of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children: Understanding Different Acronyms

August 7, 2019

When you’re new to the journey of having a Deaf/Hard of hearing child, it’s all too easy to become lost in the sea of acronyms floating around. Here are a...

Family Support, Parent Information

Parent Advocacy App for Families with Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children

July 29, 2019

Hands & Voices has collaborated with American Society for Deaf Children, National Association for the Deaf, and Gallaudet University to create a Parent Advocacy App for families with deaf and...

Family Support, Parent Information, Thoughts on Parenting a Deaf Child

LaShawna Sims: Deaf with Autism

December 5, 2018

I have heard that oftentimes the first deaf or hard of hearing person some people meet is their own deaf or hard of hearing child. While for us that wasn’t...

Early Intervention, Parent Information

Teaching Deaf and Hard of Hearing Kids to Read

June 4, 2018

By Karen Putz, Co-Director of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Infusion I grew up hard of hearing. The library was my favorite place and I often spent Saturday mornings picking...

Parent Information, Thoughts on Parenting a Deaf Child

Autism or Hearing Difference? Tweezing out the Differences

May 4, 2018

By: Kristi Riley One of the big questions researchers have in the D/HH and autism world is, how do you tell the difference between hearing loss symptoms and autism symptoms?...

Deaf & HH Adults, Parent Information

My Ear: New Speech to Text App

November 30, 2017

A father and son team, Gerald and Brandon Isobe, teamed up to develop a new speech-to-text app called “My Ear.” Gerald was born deaf and grew up in Hawaii. Day after...