GENERAL MULTICULTURAL RESOURCES FOR FAMILIES/PARENTS:

The following pages provide information to families/parents in three categories.

Information about General Health in multiple languages
- Families/Parents may seek information about general development or health issues that are unrelated to hearing loss.
Information about Developmental Milestones in multiple languages
- Families/Parents may seek information about typical language, cognitive and physical development.
Information about Intervention Tips about Play, Language Development, Use of Music, Drama and Art, and Reading in multiple languages
- These websites provide tip sheets for parents about play activities, language development, supporting development through music, drama and art and suggestions about promoting reading. These tip sheets are available in multiple languages.

This web site has been developed as a partnership between the University of Colorado Boulder/Marion Downs Center and Hands & Voices. These pages contain research and information for researchers, practicing audiologists, teachers of the deaf, speech/language pathologists and early intervention providers providing services to families and children who are deaf or hard of hearing. Research information on the auditory skills, speech, language, cognitive, and social-emotional development of infants and children who are deaf or hard of hearing will be provided on this website.

Hands & Voices and the Marion Downs Center Research team are proud to be co-partnering on this web site and working in collaboration to provide research and information that assists all those interested in assisting deaf and hard of hearing children and their families. Hands & Voices is a national non-profit parent-driven organization that provides communication-unbiased information, educational advocacy, parent-mentoring and much more to families with children who are deaf or hard of hearing, and to the professionals who serve them. www.handsandvoices.org

Language Information for Families

Family Language Information for Providers

GENERAL MULTICULTURAL RESOURCES FOR FAMILIES/PARENTS:

The following pages provide information to families/parents in three categories.

Information about General Health in multiple languages

Families/Parents may seek information about general development or health issues that are unrelated to hearing loss.

Information about Developmental Milestones in multiple languages

Families/Parents may seek information about typical language, cognitive and physical development.

Information about Intervention Tips about Play, Language Development, Use of Music, Drama and Art, and Reading in multiple languages

These websites provide tip sheets for parents about play activities, language development, supporting development through music, drama and art and suggestions about promoting reading. These tip sheets are available in multiple languages.