Resources for families
Free things to download, watch and read, made for families of deaf and hard-of-hearing children.
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Our programme documents
- Ishara Kids curriculum framework
The three levels from age 2 to 6, the five learning domains, the daily routine and the parent programme. Aligned with NEP 2020 and ISLRTC guidelines.
- Curriculum reading list
Handbooks for educators, ISL references from ISLRTC and NCERT, picture books for circle time, and reading for parents.
- Centre, classroom and home: tools and equipment
How the centre is set up for deaf children, what our teachers use, and what helps at home.
For home
- Coming soon
Visual daily routine board
Picture cards for waking up, meals, bath and bedtime, to use at home.
- Coming soon
This week’s home signs
The 15 to 20 signs from each parent workshop, with pictures, checked by our Deaf educators.
- Coming soon
Daily device check card
A simple morning checklist for hearing aids and implant processors: a quick listening check, batteries, and drying overnight.
- Coming soon
A visually alert home
Ideas for flashing doorbells, vibrating alarms and visual baby monitors.
- Coming soon
Picture books with deaf characters
Our reading list for story time. The titles are in the curriculum reading list above.
Learn ISL
- The Indian Sign Language dictionary and learning resources from ISLRTC
- NCERT and ISLRTC’s ISL materials on DIKSHA, with QR-linked ISL videos
Read
For parents
- The Parenting Journey: Raising Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children
Karen Putz - How Deaf Children Learn: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know
Marc Marschark and Peter C. Hauser
Picture books
- Moses Goes to a Concert
Isaac Millman - Boy
Phil Cummings - Mighty Mila
Katie Petruzziello
These books come from outside India, so the signing in them is not ISL. They are about deaf children’s lives, not sign lessons.
For educators and professionals
- Language Learning in Children Who Are Deaf and Hard of Hearing: Theory to Classroom Practice
Susan R. Easterbrooks - 58-IN-MIND: Multilingual Teaching Strategies for Diverse Deaf Students
Debbie Golos - Auditory-Verbal Therapy: For Young Children with Hearing Loss and Their Families, and the Practitioners Who Guide Them
Warren Estabrooks, Ellen A. Rhoades and Karen MacIver-Lux - NCERT Primary ISL Adapted Series
NCERT and ISLRTC, on the DIKSHA portal with QR-linked ISL videos