Parenting

Two people in a kitchen, one gesturing with hands wearing a hearing aid, the other listening attentively, conveying communication or sign language use.

Specialist Parenting Service BSL Icon

Our nationwide Parenting service specialises in working with families with deafness. This can be deaf parents with deaf or hearing children or hearing parents with deaf children. Our aim is to create better parenting through access to information, advice and support.

Our Parenting Mentors are deaf, and fully trained in parenting skills, with significant experience of frontline Children and Family work.

We cater for many different communication needs including: British Sign Language (BSL), Sign Supported English (SSE), speech and lipreading, Deafblind communication and visual methods.

We provide direct support to meet a family’s educational and cultural needs.

​If you would like more information about this service, contact us at [email protected] 

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​Our services include:

  • Information, advice and guidance
  • One-to-one tailored packages for those in need of specialist support to improve parenting skills and capacity. This support is delivered through home visits, contact centres and/or remotely
  • Parent Advocacy
  • Parenting workshops
  • Deaf Parenting Awareness Training for Service Professionals

Testimonals

‘…Thank you very much for your superb support to the family, which has been positive and highlighted how your intervention has benefited the parents including them attending any groups.’

(Team Manager,  Children’s Social Work Team 1, London Borough of Hillingdon)

‘…Thank you so much for the work and support that you have provided to the family.’

(Social Worker, No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF) and Private Fostering Team, Hackney Children and Families’ Services, London Borough of Hackney)

‘…the support you provided to the mother and her children was so valuable and a huge factor in us being able to end our involvement.’

(Consultant Social Worker, Hoddesdon and Broxbourne Family Safeguarding team, Hertfordshire County Council)

‘… has been so influential for positive change in our local authority social work practice when working with families who are deaf … has been responsible for positive parental changes with the family we’ve been working with, which we could not have achieved without their support.’ 

(Social Worker, Families and Children Learning, Brighton & Hove City Council)

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