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Hearing Loss
Early intervention is key to enabling natural development of Deaf and hard-of-hearing infants. If you suspect that your baby doesn’t hear properly then get help right away. The first few years of a child’s life are when language… Read More
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Home Intervention
Trained HI specialists visit an assigned family every 2 weeks to teach a tailor-made lesson based on our curriculum and adapted to suit the family’s needs. Lessons always have a language focus and include the practical challenges of… Read More
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Objectives
HI HOPES aims is to provide free home based support and information without bias to every family with an infant or toddler with hearing loss. Through an early intervention framework of care, support, information and partnership in a… Read More
Learn MoreOur Vision
Hi Hopes is the early intervention partner for families of deaf and hard-of-hearing babies. Hearing loss impacts all areas of development for babies, including language, socio-emotional, perceptual, cognitive and future academic performance. Every day 17 babies are born with hearing loss in South Africa and this excludes the number of children who develop hearing-loss as a result of meningitis, ear infections or ototoxic medication. HI HOPES is the Early Intervention partner for families of deaf and hard-of-hearing babies. Hearing loss impacts all areas of development for babies, including language, socio-emotional, perceptual, cognitive and future academic performance. Early intervention is the key to typical development in all these areas.
With the support of Anglo American Chairmans Fund, HI HOPES was started at the Center For Deaf Studies at Wits University with a vision to address the functional illiteracy in school leaving deaf children in South Africa by working with babies 0-3 years old and supporting their families. Find us on the Wits website here.
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