About the Baby Course

The Correspondence Course for Parents of Children Who are Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing Part A - Babies, available in English and Spanish, consists of ten separate lessons and two DVD’s, which include information about family relationships, deafness, child development and communication. It is planned for parents to use with their own babies. Depending on the age of the baby when the parent enrolls, and on the child's abilities, it takes about a year to complete.

Individual Help

In order to keep materials coming, parents must report to the Clinic at the end of each lesson. As reports are received, staff sends the next lesson. An individual letter offering a family information, encouragement, guidance, and training is sent in response to reports. The Clinic's staff also sends supplemental papers as needed or requested by families.

What The Lessons Cover

A child begins to communicate in a variety of ways right from infancy. The lessons in the Baby Course discuss the stages of language development beginning with nonverbal sounds through the first attempts at understanding and saying words. Since we want to focus on the whole child, each lesson includes sections on communication, child development, everyday language building activities and extra games.

Family Relationships

Everything parents feel, not only toward their child, but toward each other and the world around them - everything they do in front of their child, with their child, and to their child, contributes to the child's character, personality, feelings and attitudes and to the child's ability to communicate. The Course, therefore, devotes a great deal of attention to the feelings and emotions of parents.

Families may enroll immediately by visiting our website.

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