Skip to content

Family relationships

https://youtube.com/embed/7wk0nlNZL5s?rel=0&showinfo=0&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://www.ndcs.org.uk

Family relationships

Having a deaf child in the family can have an impact on your family relationships. We have advice and information for hearing siblings, grandparents, single parents, those fostering or adopting a deaf child, and childminders. In this video, Maria who is grandma to Oliver (7), who has a hearing loss, explains what support she offers to him and his family.

Siblings

Information on how to support the hearing siblings of deaf children.

Information about siblings

Grandparents

Advice for grandparents to support their grandchild and children as a new parent.

Information for grandparents

Fostering or adopting a deaf child

Information for those who are thinking of, or who have, fostered or adopted.

Fostering or adopting a deaf child

Being a single parent family

It can be tough being a single parent, we have advice from others.

Being a single parent family

Childminding a baby or child with hearing loss

Information for childminders looking after deaf children for the first time.

Childminding a baby or child with a hearing loss

Bess's family stories

Bess and her mum, dad and two sisters talk about family life with a deaf child.