deaf children – Raising a Deaf or Hard of Hearing Child

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...

Family Support, Thoughts on Parenting a Deaf Child

Guiding Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children Through the Coronavirus Shutdown

May 4, 2020

Luck, Love, and a Little Bit of Grace By Karen L. Kritzer, Ph.D. and Chad E. Smith, Ph.D. By March 31, 2020 a third of humankind was residing under lockdown...

Deaf & HH Adults

Tony Decha-Umphai: My Mom Taught Me to be Likeable

March 5, 2020

I was born and raised in Nashville, TN. I was born hearing, so I acquired speech at an earlier age. At the age of 6 years old, my hearing began...

Deaf & HH Teens, Family Support, Thoughts on Parenting a Deaf Child

Marbely Barahona: We Wondered How His Future Would Be

December 10, 2018

Today was the day. As parents of a deaf child, we always wondered how his future would be. At some point, we felt overwhelmed, sad and very hopeless. We remember...

Thoughts on Parenting a Deaf Child

Rosabel Agbayani: The Road We Travel TOGETHER

August 15, 2018

The road we travel TOGETHER: Our Family Journey By Rosabel O. Agbayani, MPH “If you want to change the world, go home and love your family.” -Mother Theresa Sometimes we...

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...

Deaf & HH Teens

Deaf and Hard of Hearing Teens: Fitting in When We Stand Out

September 11, 2017

The Journey through Adolescence: Fitting In When We Stand Out The adventure of adolescence is full of discovery both socially and within ones’ self, and even more so for...

Family Support, Parent Information

Shelia Cargile: “More Than Fine”

August 17, 2017

Shelia Cargile, director of Hands & Voices Mississippi, passed away in a tragic car accident on May 28, 2017. She passed before she got to see Guide By Your Side...

Family Support, Thoughts on Parenting a Deaf Child

Elizabeth Albers: Language in Any Form is a Beautiful Thing

June 12, 2017

We are the Albers Family, a homeschooling family of nine with two children who have severe to profound hearing loss. We entered the deaf/hoh world three years ago when we...