Parents’ Advice for Professionals

• Listen to us!

• Be knowledgeable

• Be honest

• Be professional

• Tell us everything

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family-professional relationship: Developmental implications for young deaf and

hard of hearing children. In P. Spencer, C. Erting, & M. Marschark (Eds.). The

deaf child in the family and at school.

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