AVID Language

🤝 Partnering to expand deaf representation, awareness and language-learning through children’s books!

💡 It started with the CIICA Global Summit back in 2024, where I met Jarle Franceus, Lecturer in Speech Therapy & Audiology at Artevelde University of Applied Sciences. We immediately sensed an opportunity for collaboration in the translation of some AVID Language books into Dutch.

📚 Jarle and I initially worked together in a private capacity to translate my two little Ling Ling Bird (a.k.a Pip de Papagaai) books, and very soon this led to bigger things: a collaboration with the Speech and Language department at Artevelde University. Students working with Jarle chose two of our books, “C.I. Quest” (“Boer Bram en het CI-avontuur”) and “Mr Mellow Likes Yellow” (“Meneer Moreel is dol op geel”) to use as the anchors for their thesis projects, focusing on fostering communication development of children with hearing loss through storybooks. Inter alia, the project involved translating the books into Dutch, while retaining the language development strategies which are woven into the stories.

🎉 Congratulations and thanks to Sienna Hendrickx, Annika Kuypers, Xan Delobel and Lara Vannieuwenhuyse for their thoughtful and sensitive translation work, and wishing you all the very best of luck for your graduation and ongoing careers.

🛒 These Dutch versions of our books are now available from Amazon and many other online bookstores. I will also be proudly showcasing them in person at the upcoming FCEI Conference in Bad Ischl, Austria.

❓ More info: www.avidlanguage.com/boeken-in-het-nederlands

🤩 Thanks to Paola Brolis-Pistone for her fabulous Italian translation of "Ling Ling Bird Hears with his Magic Ears".

🦜 "Paolino il Papagallino sente con le sue orecchie magiche" is out now and available from Amazon and many other online bookstores, the first in our Italian series of "Libri illustrati sulla diversità, per bambini sordi e udenti".

🩷 It's particularly special having Paola translate this book, because when her lovely daughter, Everly, was younger and just embarking on her language-learning journey, it was her favourite book... So many stories that combine to make AVID Language what it is are so personal, and therefore all the more precious. Thank you, Paola, for your translation work and thank you, Everly, for being a fan!

❓ More info at: www.avidlanguage.com/libri-in-italiano

📚 If you're going to be at the FCEI Conference in Bad Ischl, Austria next week, please stop by and take a look at all our books - we have titles in 11 different spoken languages and 2 sign languages.... with more coming soon, so watch this space!

🦜 Ling Ling Bird becomes Pássaro Piu in Portuguese!

🤩 Thank you to Pedro Brás da Silva and Rosária Pereira for their fabulous translation work on two of our best-selling books. Their experience and expertise as an auditory verbal therapist and speech and language therapist respectively have ensured that, in translation, these two fun little storybooks for very early listeners still retain their inbuilt language development strategies.

🆕 I'm thrilled to be showcasing these new Portuguese versions at the FCEI Conference next week, and they are also already available from Amazon and other online bookstores:
https://www.avidlanguage.com/livros-em-portugues

📚 In total, we now have books available in 11 spoken languages and 2 sign languages, and we're not stopping there, so watch this space!

✈️ Excited to be heading to the FCEI Conference in Bad Ischl, Austria next week, and grateful for the opportunity to showcase our AVID Language books in 11 different spoken languages and 2 sign languages. (FCEI = Family Centred Early Intervention). And of course looking forward to seeing friends and colleagues there too, from near and far. 😁

📚 Don't yet know about our books and resources? Check out www.avidlanguage.com/books - we have titles for little ones, teens, parents and professionals.

Jack Signs! in action at the Manchester Deaf Centre 🥰

www.avidlanguage.com/jack-signs

Karen Hardwicke