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Family relationships

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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.

A boy and girl in Christmas jumpers sign to each other.

Siblings

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

Information about siblings

A grandmother holds her grandson, with her husband standing beside her.

Grandparents

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

Information for grandparents

The back of a teenager's head who is wearing a cochlear implant.

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

Oyin, a black woman, sits on the sofa surrounded by her three sons.

Being a single parent family

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

Being a single parent family

A woman crouches on the floor, holding a toddler outside a care setting.

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, her parents and her two sisters pose for the camera.

Bess's family stories

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