Desert Voices

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🗣️ CALLING ALL ALUMNI!!!!

As we close out another school year, we would love to hear from our alumni and alumni families with exciting updates, graduation pictures, or anything else you want to share in celebration with us!

To kick us off, we have Sadie with her Future Singer Award! Sadie always had the confidence, she just needed the voice to go with it. 🥰

“Thank you Desert Voices for giving her a voice, and lighting this light inside of her that we are so excited to watch grow!” - Dani, Sadie’s mom

As we know, books open the door to so many opportunities to build listening, vocabulary, speech, and language skills. Pairing stories with fun extension activities — like crafts, sensory play, acting out characters, or themed games — helps children make meaningful connections while learning through play.

Today we created our very own sea creatures and named them based on characteristics about them - just like in the book, “Hello My Name is… How Adorabilis Got His Name”

This National Speech-Language-Hearing Month, we’re celebrating the power of reading together and creating language-rich experiences that help little learners grow one page at a time!

Today’s forecast: 100% chance of FUN!

Hearing devices on (complete with aqua gear of course), confidence up, and water fun everywhere! 💦✨ Celebrating inclusion, communication, and childhood joy today!

What better way to celebrate Speech-Language Pathologist Day than right in the middle of National Speech-Language-Hearing Month!!

So Happy Speech-Language Pathologist Day to the professionals who help others find their voice — and remind us of the power of being heard 🗣️ 💬🦻

Big smiles, busy hands, and hearts connected 💙 Another successful Community Connect Project Day at DV! Our toddlers, preschoolers, and Kindergarteners enjoyed looking up to our friends at PCDS, and we even had one of our very own alumni join today!

Communication comes in many forms—and today, our PCDS friends showed the power of connection, teamwork, and inclusion 🫶

Meet Anthony!

He is always happy and smiling, but today that smile is even brighter because he just received his very first hearing aids! From the second he put them on, he loved how they sounded!

Thanks to our generous donors, Anthony is now using his hearing aids at school, home and everywhere he goes - and he is excited about how well he can hear! His mom and dad are thrilled too!

Moments like these remind us why we do what we do. Thank you to everyone who helps make stories like Anthony’s possible!

¡Conozcan a Anthony!

Siempre está feliz y sonriendo, pero en esta fotografía su sonrisa brilla aún más porque acaba de recibir sus primeros audífonos. ¡Desde el momento en que se los puso, a Anthony le encantó cómo los escuchaba!

Gracias a nuestros generosos donantes, Anthony ahora usa sus audífonos en la escuela, en casa y en todos los lugares a donde va, ¡y está emocionado de lo bien que puede escuchar! ¡Su mamá y su papá también están muy felices!

Momentos como este nos recuerdan por qué hacemos lo que hacemos. ¡Gracias a todos los que ayudan a hacer posibles historias como la de Anthony!

DV 💚s moms!!!!

What a LOVELY morning we had hosting Muffins With Moms 🧁

It’s national superhero day 🦸 and we’d like to thank our real-life superheroes - The Schuff Steel community and sponsors of the 22nd Annual Schuff Steel Charity Golf Classic benefiting Desert Voices!!

This community is beyond generous, showing up for children who are deaf or hard of hearing and their families, year after year.

Raising a record-breaking ✨ $420,220 this year ✨ , Schuff Steel and our sponsors are helping ensure that children and their families have the support they need to set their children up for success.

Thank you Schuff Steel, for teeing these children and families up for a bright future, and showing us that superheroes are REAL!

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