Welcome to
Let’s Listen
and Talk
Let’s Listen and Talk is a unique online service developed by specialists at The Elizabeth Foundation offering learning and information resources to parents and professionals caring for young deaf children, from birth to five years.
It provides up-to-date information and easy-to-use, fun activities, backed up with personal feedback and guidance from our experienced team.
Helping deaf children learn to listen and talk
Let’s Listen and Talk guides families and professionals step-by-step through the process of helping deaf babies, toddlers or preschool children develop listening, spoken language and communication skills during the crucial preschool years.
The Elizabeth Foundation has based the information and activities in Let’s Listen and Talk on over four decades of experience delivering effective, evidence-based intervention services for young deaf children and their families.
The programme shares techniques we use at our family centre in Hampshire, UK, to provide our Ofsted ‘Outstanding’ rated education services for babies, toddlers and preschool children with all degrees of deafness.
Available learning modules
Baby programme
Help your baby learn to listen and start communicating from their earliest days.
Toddler programme
Build your toddler’s listening, language and speech skills as they start exploring the world.
Preschool programme
Keep extending your child’s communication skills and prepare them for starting school.
Learning through music
Use music to support your child’s listening, language and communication development.
Getting to grips with technology & terminology
Learn more about hearing technology and terminology relating to deafness.
Practical information resources for
parents and professionals
Resources for parents
Videos and information resources for parents caring for young deaf children.
Resources for professionals
Resources for professionals supporting preschool deaf children.
Resources for schools
Resources for schools about hearing, deafness and Deaf awareness, including lesson plans.
Watch our Let’s Listen and Talk video
Hear from our
community
The Let’s Listen and Talk programme is helping families and professionals from all across the UK (and around the world) to help preschool deaf children in learning to communicate effectively.
Read what people enrolled on the programme have to say about the impact Let’s Listen and Talk is having on the children they are supporting.
“I’m not feeling lonely or overwhelmed anymore. I’m opening my laptop and I’m feeling support from professionals who understand how it is be the parent of a deaf child. With every lesson, they provide encouragement and have tips and ideas for how to help me to support my baby."
“This resource provides a systematic and clear developmental journey to share with parents. Congratulations on creating such a useful resource."
“I found the course really useful, thank you. The videos were brilliant, and it is good to see things in action and to hear how other parents dealt with the emotional side of the babies being deaf. Your resource and information made me feel much better about things."
"I particularly like the videos you've created to demonstrate the activities and techniques for the goals … The entire website offers so much. I know this will be a very valuable resource."
"As a working parent … the ability to have all the information at hand to digest in my own time at home has been invaluable. Each module is clearly written and presented both through text and video. It is so much easier to read, understand and then try out the activities at home … I would recommend Let's Listen and Talk to any parent."
Provided by The Elizabeth Foundation
Let’s Listen and Talk is provided by The Elizabeth Foundation, a registered charity (number 293835) founded in 1981. We are the UK’s largest single provider of education services for babies and preschool children with all degrees of deafness.
We facilitate early identification for deaf babies and preschool children, and provide comprehensive evidence-based educational services for these children, their families and the professionals involved in their care.
By doing so we:
- enable deaf children to develop their listening and spoken language skills, as well as build their self-esteem
- give parents the confidence and knowledge to make informed decisions on behalf of their deaf child
- work in partnership with the team of professionals supporting each deaf child and their family