The HOLA program is a joint venture by the departments of Speech-Language Pathology, Early Years, and English as a Second Language of the Toronto District School Board. The goal of the program is to contribute to educational practices that support parents of young students participating in authentic oral language, early literacy and social communication activities with their children in the home language as the foundation for school success.

HOLA kits are available from the Media Department, Tippett Centre. Languages include: Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, English, Farsi, Gujarati, Korean, Somali, Spanish, Tamil, Urdu, Vietnamese. Coordinators: Lynn Blanche ... [et al.] ; project leader: Fern Westernoff ; contributors: staff of Speech-Language Pathology Services, the many translators who helped make this project accessible in various languages.