Resources in Spanish
If you or someone you love listens in Spanish, you can start practicing for free today. Cochlear, MED-EL and Advanced Bionics each keep Spanish practice pages. Two audiology sites have Spanish handouts you can print. Parents of children have Hearing First and Hands & Voices. Our own app, SoundSteps, runs fully in Spanish and is free to start.
Free, no account needed.
Pick one thing to practice this week. An app works when you are on your own. A partner exercise needs someone to read words aloud, so save it for when family is around. Handouts are for reading, and for showing family what you are working on.
Kids have more Spanish material than adults, so the adult options come first.
SoundSteps is ours, so read this part knowing that. Every screen and every voice is in Spanish. Start with pairs like peso and beso, where one sound changes the word. When the pairs feel easy, move on to sentences. Short stories and conversations come after that. Add background noise when you are ready, and turn it up a little at a time.
Use it in a browser or on your phone, whatever hearing device you wear, or none. There is a free version, and you can try the full app for 7 days with no card required.
Cochlear, MED-EL and Advanced Bionics have free Spanish material as well. A lot of it is built for two people, say a sister reading words aloud while you repeat back what you heard. Some of it you can do alone.
SoundSteps en españolour app
Daily listening practice in Spanish, with Spanish voices and background noise you control. Free to start in a browser or on a phone.
Recursos para adultosCochlear
Exercises to do with a listening partner, and phone practice with a recorded voice in English and Spanish. The phone practice uses a US number.
Descarga de materiales de rehabilitaciónMED-EL
Free practice materials to download, made for adults and teens with cochlear implants.
Recursos para la rehabilitación auditivaAdvanced Bionics
A Spanish page that gathers the company's free practice apps and tools by age group. The page says they suit any hearing device.
SoundSteps (our app) runs fully in Spanish: the screens, the practice and the voices you hear.
These two sites were made by people in audiology who work with Spanish speakers. They are written mostly for hearing care teams. Many pages are still useful to print and bring to your next appointment.
Audiology en EspañolResources page
Resources on hearing care for the Hispanic and Latino community, from a bilingual audiologist: recent research, Spanish questionnaires for hearing care teams, and an infographic for families.
Audiology Materials in SpanishDoctor of Audiology project
Spanish handouts to read at home or at an appointment, plus printable tools for audiologists. You can search by topic and print what you need.
If you are raising a child who is deaf or hard of hearing, start here. Both sites keep a Spanish section for parents.
Spanish ResourcesHearing First
Handouts and short ebooks in Spanish for parents, such as a familiar-sounds audiogram and daily hearing checks for children.
Recursos en EspañolHands & Voices
The Spanish page of a parent-led group for families of children who are deaf or hard of hearing.
People get better at understanding the voices they practice with. So if Spanish is what you hear at home, practice in Spanish, and if your family switches between Spanish and English, practice in both. You can change the practice language under Settings.
A good week does not need much. Try a few minutes of practice on most days, and one exercise with a family member when you both have time. If a handout raises a question, bring it to your next hearing care visit.
FAQ
Yes. SoundSteps runs fully in Spanish, including the voices, and is free to start in a browser or on a phone. For more, look at the Spanish practice pages from Cochlear, MED-EL and Advanced Bionics.
Start with the Spanish practice pages from Cochlear, MED-EL and Advanced Bionics. For handouts to print, try Audiology Materials in Spanish and Audiology en Español. If you are a parent, Hearing First and Hands & Voices both keep Spanish sections.
Yes. Cochlear's Spanish adult page has exercises you do with a partner, and MED-EL has free downloads made for adults and teens. SoundSteps is for the days nobody is around to read to you. It goes from word pairs up to full conversations in Spanish.
Yes. It works the same with hearing aids, a cochlear implant, or no hearing device at all. The Spanish version has its own sentences and stories and its own voices, so you are not hearing English audio under a translated menu. Start on the free version.
Yes. Change the practice language under Settings any time. If your family mixes the two at dinner, practice in both.
Related reading
The free listening check runs in your browser, with nothing to install and no account to make. The Spanish version starts at soundsteps.app/es.
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