Loud Shirt Day UK

Wear your loudest clothes to create a sound future for deaf children
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Community groups

Are you a member or coordinator of a community group? Why not suggest wearing your loudest shirts to help create a sound future for deaf children?

Register and order our fundraising pack full of loud materials to help your community group understand more about deafness and its impact, along with fun ideas and helpful tips to assist you in running a successful day.

Once you have registered and got your fundraising pack we have extra downloadable resources to assist with your Loud Shirt Day.

DOWNLOADABLE RESOURCES

Here are some fundraising ideas:

Wear a loud shirt at your meeting and ask everyone to donate!
Why not have a bake sale?
You could put on a quiz and ask everyone to donate £2.
Your community group could meet up and do an activity you don’t usually do, like going for a walk or karaoke, with everyone donating £2.

Click here for more information on how to participate.

Whatever you decide to do, remember to post it on social media using the hashtag #LoudShirtDay and email [email protected] so we can see your fabulous pictures!

Although Loud Shirt Day officially falls on June 5 2020, you can hold an event at any time of the year – such as a wonderfully LOUD event to celebrate the holidays!

See photos from previous years here:

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Supporting deaf children’s listening and spoken language in mainstream education - 4 February 2020
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Tanya Saunders - Cambridgeshire
Onna's story

Onna, was born prematurely at 28 weeks, alongside her typically hearing twin sister, Sala. Onna passed her newborn screening. However, by about 10 months old, she had progressively but quickly lost all her hearing. Onna’s hearing loss was initially misdiagnosed but she was finally diagnosed with severe-profound hearing loss and Auditory Neuropathy Spectrum Disorder. She received bilateral cochlear implants a month before her third birthday and started the Auditory Verbal UK a few months later.

What is Auditory Verbal therapy?

Auditory verbal therapy is a highly specialist early intervention programme which equips parents with the skills to maximise their deaf child’s speech and language development.
Training to be an Auditory Verbal Therapist

Find out how you can train to become an Auditory Verbal Therapist in the UK.
Evidence base for Auditory Verbal therapy

Deaf children can learn to listen and speak – like their hearing peers. What's the evidence?
Our mission

At Auditory Verbal UK, we want to see a world where all deaf children have the same opportunities in life as hearing children.
Work for us

Do you have an interest in transforming children’s lives? See our vacancies.
Therapy sessions

Auditory Verbal therapy (AVT) is about enabling your child to learn to talk through listening. Read more about the therapy we provide.
Foundation level

This 6-month course is available in a distance-learning format and in person at our London centre. Designed to equip professionals with the core skills needed to develop auditory practice when working with children with hearing loss and their families, we are also able to deliver this course in-service to employers wishing to train groups of staff.
Early intervention

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Joining the programme

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