Many people in the D/deaf community prefer to use British Sign Language (BSL) to communicate. There is no written equivalent. This means that parents of D/deaf children need to use BSL to communicate with their child. Whilst learning BSL may be difficult enough, many parents from minority ethnic communities do not speak English so struggle to learn BSL. The challenges many hearing parents have in communicating with their D/deaf child may leave the child feeling isolated and unsupported. In turn this may develop into anxiety and other mental health challenges.