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Passport to Fun: Ideas for Building Vocabulary Through Summer Play

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Turn everyday summer moments into language-building adventures with Passport to Fun! This playful guide is packed with easy, engaging activities that help your little one grow listening and talking skills. Perfect for toddlers and preschoolers!
- Jun 3, 2025
Grow Listening and Talking Skills for Preschoolers with Hearing Loss: Ideas for Playtime

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Playtime is perfect for teaching preschoolers to listen and talk. Find common playtime activities for preschoolers who are deaf or hard of hearing.
- Dec 18, 2024
An LSL Strategy to Get Started

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When teaching your baby to listen, you can use this LSL strategy.
- Sep 26, 2024

LSL Journey

4 Ways You Can Feel Confident About Working with Your Professional Team

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Find early intervention tips and strategies to strengthen communication and build trusting parent-professional relationships for your child.
- Sep 19, 2025
Preparing Your Child for a Cochlear Implant

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What can parents do to help their child prepare for cochlear implants? Learn tips that will help maximize the time leading up to implantation.
- Dec 14, 2023
The Wheel That Makes LSL Go Round!

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The LSL journey is more like a wheel than a straight line. It’s a proven path that helps children with hearing loss learn to listen and talk.
- Jan 22, 2021

Talk, Read, Sing, Play

Reading & Books

Talk, Read, Sing, & Play Every Day

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Infant brain development is influenced by simple daily activities like talking, reading, singing, and playing. Find helpful tips to help babies with hearing loss learn to talk.
- Nov 18, 2024
Fall Into a Book: Reading Ideas for Kids

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Book ideas to read aloud with children who are deaf or hard of hearing. Help grow their literacy, learning, listening and language skills with these books.
- Oct 1, 2024
Spring Into Reading: Book Ideas for Kids

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Explore these book ideas to read aloud with your child who is deaf or hard of hearing. Promote literacy in children with hearing loss by reading each day.
- Jun 24, 2024

Playtime

Passport to Fun: Ideas for Building Vocabulary Through Summer Play

Hearing First

Turn everyday summer moments into language-building adventures with Passport to Fun! This playful guide is packed with easy, engaging activities that help your little one grow listening and talking skills. Perfect for toddlers and preschoolers!
- Jun 3, 2025
Playful Tips to Make a Splash in Your Child’s Development

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Water play is a great way to help children build language skills, combine words, and express their needs. Explore fun LSL water activities to support your little one’s communication development.
- May 15, 2025
Backyard Adventures and Outdoor Fun for Listening and Learning

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Language-rich backyard activities using LSL strategies to support listening and spoken language development in children who are deaf or hard of hearing.
- May 15, 2025

Routines & Activities

Passport to Fun: Ideas for Building Vocabulary Through Summer Play

Hearing First

Turn everyday summer moments into language-building adventures with Passport to Fun! This playful guide is packed with easy, engaging activities that help your little one grow listening and talking skills. Perfect for toddlers and preschoolers!
- Jun 3, 2025
Playful Tips to Make a Splash in Your Child’s Development

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Water play is a great way to help children build language skills, combine words, and express their needs. Explore fun LSL water activities to support your little one’s communication development.
- May 15, 2025
Backyard Adventures and Outdoor Fun for Listening and Learning

Hearing First

Language-rich backyard activities using LSL strategies to support listening and spoken language development in children who are deaf or hard of hearing.
- May 15, 2025

What To Do

Playful Tips to Make a Splash in Your Child’s Development

Hearing First

Water play is a great way to help children build language skills, combine words, and express their needs. Explore fun LSL water activities to support your little one’s communication development.
- May 15, 2025
Backyard Adventures and Outdoor Fun for Listening and Learning

Hearing First

Language-rich backyard activities using LSL strategies to support listening and spoken language development in children who are deaf or hard of hearing.
- May 15, 2025
Your First Step Starts with First LSL Lessons

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First LSL Lessons offers practical resources for parents of children with hearing loss to build listening and talking skills through everyday routines.
- May 5, 2025

Pediatric Audiology

Audiology

Audiology Resource Round Up

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Learn what your child’s audiogram really means. Download Hearing First’s updated Familiar Sounds Audiogram & eBook to guide listening and spoken language.
- Sep 17, 2025
How Busy Pediatric Audiologists Can Stay on the Forefront of Research and Best Practices

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How can pediatric audiologists stay ahead of the latest research and best practices. Hearing First offers free learning! Read more and sign up today.
- Nov 17, 2023
What “Eyes Open, Ears On” Really Looks Like

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Advice for parents! Hear from a mom about a Listening and Spoken Language routine in the mornings and how many hours a baby should wear their hearing devices.
- Apr 10, 2023

Hearing Devices

What “Eyes Open, Ears On” Really Looks Like

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Advice for parents! Hear from a mom about a Listening and Spoken Language routine in the mornings and how many hours a baby should wear their hearing devices.
- Apr 10, 2023
Choosing Which Cochlear Implant is Right for Your Child

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Choosing a cochlear implant for your child? Learn more about types of CIs and get tips for how to decide which cochlear implant to choose.
- Feb 13, 2023
Why You CAN’T Get OTC Hearing Aids For Kids

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The FDA has approved OTC hearing aids for adults but children can’t use OTC hearing aids for several reasons. Read why your child needs a professional.
- Sep 14, 2022

Hearing Testing

Can My Baby Hear Me?

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As a parent, you know your baby best! But how can you tell if your baby can hear you? Read about when you should make an appointment for a hearing test.
- Sep 16, 2024
Tips to Prepare for Your Baby’s Hearing Evaluation

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Learn about your baby’s hearing evaluation and what you can do to prepare for it. This infant hearing test will confirm if your baby has hearing loss.
- Jan 19, 2021
The Results Are In: What to Do After a Newborn Hearing Screening

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Most parents don’t know about the newborn hearing screening or how important it is to their baby’s future. Learn what to do if your baby failed the screening.
- Nov 5, 2015

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Travel Tips for Children with Hearing Loss – Must-Haves for Smooth Trips

Ready to hit the road this holiday season? Whether it’s grandma’s house or a snowy getaway, traveling...

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Cooking Up Listening and Learning: LSL Strategies for Families in the Kitchen

For many families, the kitchen is the heart of the home. It’s where favorite meals are made, traditions...

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How to Point Out Sound with Be a Director and Be a Bird Dog LSL Strategies

How does a baby learn that the ring of the doorbell means someone is visiting? Or that the splash of...

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Unlocking the Sounds of Speech with the Familiar Sounds Audiogram and eBook

When a child is first identified with hearing loss, parents often step into a brand-new world filled...

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4 Ways You Can Feel Confident About Working with Your Professional Team

You’ve probably heard the saying, “It takes a village to raise a child.” For families of children with...

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Audiology Resource Round Up

Families often have a sea of questions about their child’s hearing loss and hearing devices. Here are...

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Newborn Hearing Screenings: What You Need to Know

Every day, babies across the country receive newborn screenings shortly after being born. One screening...

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Making Memories and Building Language at National Parks

Summertime brings warmer weather, brighter days, and endless chances to explore, play, and grow your...

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Passport to Fun: Ideas for Building Vocabulary Through Summer Play

Summer’s bursting with new adventures for your little explorer, but coming up with fresh ideas every...

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Playful Tips to Make a Splash in Your Child’s Development

Let’s Play the LSL Way: Water Fun Did you know that playtime is how little ones learn? It’s true! During...

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Travel Tips for Children with Hearing Loss – Must-Haves for Smooth Trips

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Travel tips for deaf children: learn how to pack hearing devices, keep LSL routines, and support listening and language on vacation.
- Nov 7, 2025
Cooking Up Listening and Learning: LSL Strategies for Families in the Kitchen

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Learn how cooking together can help your child build strong listening and language skills with easy, family-friendly LSL strategies.
- Oct 21, 2025
How to Point Out Sound with Be a Director and Be a Bird Dog LSL Strategies

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Learn how to use Be a Director and Be a Bird Dog LSL strategies to grow early listening skills, connect sounds to meaning, and teach babies to talk.
- Oct 1, 2025
4 Ways You Can Feel Confident About Working with Your Professional Team

Hearing First

Find early intervention tips and strategies to strengthen communication and build trusting parent-professional relationships for your child.
- Sep 19, 2025
Unlocking the Sounds of Speech with the Familiar Sounds Audiogram and eBook

Hearing First

Learn what your child’s audiogram really means. Download Hearing First’s updated Familiar Sounds Audiogram & eBook to guide listening and spoken language.
- Sep 17, 2025
Resources for Children with Hearing Loss in Spanish

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Explore resources for children with hearing loss in Spanish, including audiogram guides and tips for supporting listening and spoken language at home.
- Sep 17, 2025
Audiology Resource Round Up

Hearing First

Learn what your child’s audiogram really means. Download Hearing First’s updated Familiar Sounds Audiogram & eBook to guide listening and spoken language.
- Sep 17, 2025
Newborn Hearing Screenings: What You Need to Know

Hearing First

Learn what to do if a newborn hearing test failed, the 1-3-6 guidelines for infant hearing, and why early diagnosis of hearing loss in babies matters.
- Sep 9, 2025
Making Memories and Building Language at National Parks

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One of the best summer activities for kids is National Parks – especially for kids who are deaf or hard of hearing who get a free National Park Pass.
- Jul 22, 2025
Passport to Fun: Ideas for Building Vocabulary Through Summer Play

Hearing First

Turn everyday summer moments into language-building adventures with Passport to Fun! This playful guide is packed with easy, engaging activities that help your little one grow listening and talking skills. Perfect for toddlers and preschoolers!
- Jun 3, 2025

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