Who are we

The Elizabeth Foundation is a national charity supporting infants and pre-school children with hearing loss and their families. It helps babies and children with all degrees of hearing loss learn to listen and speak. It does this by providing pre-school education services at its Family Centre, along with help, support and advice for families.

What we do

The Elizabeth Foundation teaches very young deaf children how to listen and speak.  We work with babies from 6 weeks of age, toddlers and pre-schoolers, to develop their listening skills to enable them to access language.  Once these young children can hear language they can learn to speak – all vital skills to be able to flourish at the school of their choice and to reach their full potential.

Our Family Centre in Portsmouth has over 70 deaf young children attending every week to work with our team of specialist staff in a relaxed, fun group environment.  Key to our success is that the children learn and develop in small groups with their deaf peers.  Families travel up to 2 hours each way to access our unique services to give their deaf child the very best start in life.

‘Let’s Listen & Talk’ is our home learning programme for families that can’t get to our Portsmouth Family Centre.  Over the next year we will have an additional 150+ families working with us across the whole of the UK, through this programme.

Why we need you 

We rely entirely on voluntary donations to run our services and receive no ongoing statutory funding to finance our work.