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DELTA stands for Death Education through Listening and Talking and is a UK charity that supports families with deaf babies, children and young people and the practitioners in health and education that work with them. It promotes Natural Auralism.

DELTA has existed since 1980 when a group of teachers of the deaf felt that children, even with a profound hearing loss, would be able their full potential despite their deafness. Modern hearing aids mean that deaf children can pick up sound and learn to speak in exactly the same way that children with normal hearing do.

It follows the natural aural approach, the underpinnings of which are that children learn to talk in the natural way – by listening to what they hear around them from parents and other family members.

DELTA runs a website (deafeducation.org.uk) which includes information for families and professionals available for download.

The charity sees the child’s natural abilities as paramount and seeks to empower families, carers and teachers to recognise and encourage those abilities.