HearSay
our in-house author blog
Tanya Saunders, author and founder of AVID Language
Tanya Saunders is an author, illustrator, lover of wild places and mother to twin daughters, one of whom is profoundly deaf. She founded AVID Language to help inspire deaf children to dream big and reach for the stars. Tanya blogs about her experiences of parenting a deaf child alongside a hearing sibling, writing, publishing and the latest AVID Language news.*
*Views and opinions are entirely Tanya’s own, and not necessarily representative of AVID Language Ltd as a whole.
The bumps in the road
No-one ever said that navigating the hearing loss journey alongside your deaf child was going to be plain sailing. And it’s true. It’s hard. It’s exhausting. It’s frightening at times. But then, it’s also equally joyous and rewarding and often simply incredible! The truth is, no matter how many bumps in the road you encounter (some families unfortunately encounter many more than others), you pretty much know there will be another one coming at some stage. When it comes, each bump has the power to punch you in the gut, completely knocking the wind out of your sails.