Looking for books to share with young children? No matter the communication mode you use, reading books to children is a nurturing experience! Here is a list of 101 books to read to kids before kindergarten.

Link: http://growingbookbybook.com/101-books-read-kids-kindergarten/

Webinar: Engaging Diverse Families in Leadership for Systems Change

April 20, 2017, 3:00pm – 4:30pm ET

Family organizations, professionals, and state and local agencies are increasingly seeking to engage diverse families in leadership to improve systems. This webinar will provide tools and strategies to help organizations and agencies:
assess and improve agency and staff readiness;
identify, recruit, prepare, engage and support diverse family leaders in meaningful leadership roles; recognize family leader contributions; become an organization more focused on and capable of supporting diverse leadership.

Link: http://www.asd-1817.org/page.cfm?p=1473

If she hadn’t been pregnant, Erin Swetnam might never have known that there was something different about the “cold” she had.

Read more about CMV at the link below.

Link: http://ijr.com/2017/04/846260-mom-devastated-to-learn-her-infants-deafness-came-from-a-common-virus-she-didnt-know-she-had/

Closing the “word gap” between babies from low- and high-income homes is more than just an educational issue—it could help decrease the risk of significant health problems too, according to a group of researchers.

Link: http://leader.pubs.asha.org/article.aspx?articleid=2615535

Link: https://studybreaks.com/2017/04/08/deaf/

Link: http://www.heartolearn.org/tutorials/hearing-loss-management/middle-ear-infections.html

Twenty years ago, Michelle Christie directed a stage performance. The actors were all students with hearing loss.

Read more:

Link: http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/06/health/cnn-hero-michelle-christie-no-limits-theater-group/