I’m interested to find out if any other cuers are interested in guest blogging. Are you a cuer, the parent of a cuer, a person who supports cuers? Do you have stories concerning the history of Cued Speech, Orin Cornett, or early cuers? Are you willing to share your Read More ...
I’ve mentioned in the past that I am a hearing parent of a deaf/HOH cuer, but that I personally did not learn phonics as a young reader. My grade level in school was taught the whole word method to learn to read. I really didn’t even understand what phonics and phonemes were until Read More ...
There was a celebration Sunday, and I had to say a few words. Foolishly, I was unprepared. Sunday we had a grand party for Ben, a celebration of his graduation from high school. My father, and all three of my brothers and family, attended. W, Ben’s mom, had her mother and her three Read More ...
Are any of you reading the new book “Cued Speech and Cued Language for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children”? I’ve been reading my copy. Have you found a favorite quote in the book yet? One of my favorites is right in Chapter 1 which was written by Carol LaSasso. Read More ...
Weeks drift by, the screen remains blank. Where are the words? What do you want to articulate? What does it have to do with cueing? Should I talk of modeling romantic love as a single parent to my teenage youth, about to become ensnared in love’s confusions and passions? Of Cafe Read More ...
It was in the summer of 1999 when I stumbled upon Cued Speech. I had just finished my freshman year of college at Roger Williams University and was getting ready to head down to Washington, DC to participate in LEAP (Leadership Enrichment Adventure Program), a leadership program designed for Read More ...
“You’re a good girl, you’re a wonderful sister, and you’re a sweetheart of a child.” I bestowed this valedictory benediction on Maddie, my daughter, for years. Gender specific, relationship specific, and then universal — girl, sister, child. Maddie turned 15 Read More ...
I love when I stumble upon videos concerning Cued Speech. I found this video on YouTube. I’m glad it was captioned. The person in the video is a BSL user who used Cued Speech until she was 7 years old and then switched to signing. Now, as an adult, she wishes she had continued to use Cued Read More ...
This is the continuation of my first post about Prosody, and why we should cue it. To show you how so very important prosody is in communication, I’ve embedded two short videos of myself cueing several short sentences, one with prosody, one without. See which one you can get the most Read More ...
High schoolers in our county are in the middle of first semester exams, a few taken on Friday but the rest looming this week. Ben and Maddie are both preparing and studying. I want to believe, but don’t really know, what or how much or how well they, but Ben especially, is doing. If Read More ...
