Information for Families/Parents who speak Dutch

INFORMATION FOR PARENTS ON DEAFNESS AND HEARING LOSS, LANGUAGE, PLAY, READING AND SOCIAL EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT

HEAR & WATCH: (APP)

Download Hear & Watch onto your smartphone

Hear & Watch is an app for parents (and relatives) of a deaf or hard of hearing child from the age of 0 to 1 1/2 years. This app offers information on various topics related to hearing loss in young children (e.g. hearing aids, language development, parent-child interaction). The app contains brief articles with pictures and video’s. The articles in the app can be translated automatically into 12 languages.

Hear & Watch is developed by the NSDSK and is based on the method ‘Connected in Communication’.

If you are a provider and want to download the application, you will be asked to put in a birthdate for your child. The application will prioritize information according to the age of the child, but you will be able to access all of the information in the application once you are registered.

The application was designed in English and Dutch.

The information on the application can be translated into Arabic, Chinese (Taiwan), Chinese (Simplified), French, German, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Tamil, Turkish.

The articles are automatically translated in the selected language. As a result, some translations may be incorrect.

Hear & Watch is a product of the NSDSK, based on the method “Connected in Communication” NSDSK is the Dutch Foundation for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Child).

If you go to the Query symbol at the bottom, the different categories will be shown. The information will be filtered according to the age and hearing loss of your child.

Information is available about hearing aids, hearing, language, multilingual, book tip, family, visible, sign language, attention, interaction, eye contact, emotions, facial expression, communication, singing, influence of sound, understanding, sound games, daily routines, auditory neuropathy, dealing with the diagnosis, cochlear implants, websites, deaf culture, identity

ASSURE THE BEST

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Checklists for speech, play, and physical development, from 3, 6, 9, 12, and 15 months of age

Easy-to-understand illustrations, showing typical and atypical physical development by age

Fun tips and activities that encourage baby’s development at 0-3 months, 4-6 months, 7-9 months, 10-12 months, and 13-15 months

Languages: Arabic, Azeri, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Mandarin, Oriya, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Turkish Ukranian

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