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To celebrate this year’s Deaf Awareness Week (1-7 May 2023), The Elizabeth Foundation has released five new videos about its work, published its Listen! Spring/Summer 2023 newsletter, and continued sharing teaching resources on deaf awareness.

The Elizabeth Foundation has always supported the decisions that our parents make when choosing the best ways to help their child learn to communicate. Responding to feedback from our beneficiaries, we have recently launched new instruction for parents in British Sign Language (BSL).

More than 1000 people have now signed up to The Elizabeth Foundation’s unique online learning and support programme Let’s Listen and Talk. As the charity marked this milestone, it released a new part of its “Learning through music” resource on the website helping young deaf children develop their communication skills.

Staff, trustees, volunteers, families and supporters of The Elizabeth Foundation recently celebrated the wonderful news that Ofsted rated the charity’s services for preschool deaf children ‘Outstanding’ in their latest inspection report.

In the run up to Red Nose Day on 18 March 2022, young deaf adult Oliver Pritchard is representing The Elizabeth Foundation in the “Red Nose and Spoon Race” on BBC The One Show to help raise funds for Comic Relief.