Illinois
Sound Beginnings
Illinois Sound Beginnings is a collaborative effort between the IL Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Program and IL Hands & Voices Guide By Your Side as a way to provide parents and professionals resources and information they need to ensure children who are deaf, hard of hearing and deafblind reach their highest potential.
LANGUAGE TOOLKIT D/HH INFANT & TODDLER STRATEGIES
“The most important factor in children's language development is the quality and quantity of the language they hear from their caregivers and in their environments.”
- Catherine Snow, Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor and Researcher
This toolkit was originally developed by Rebecca
Tucker with Parent Infant Network for Educational
Services (PINES) Early Hearing Detection and
Intervention (EHDI) in Georgia. It is shared here with
permission and in partnership with Illinois EHDI and Illinois Hands & Voices.
Illinois EHDI and Illinois Hands & Voices have adapted and translated this toolkit into multiple languages to increase accessibility for families and professionals. The translated versions are shared with the permission of the original author.
