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Written by Barb Ballard from on May 6th, 2010 | 0 Comments
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 ...
Written by Duke Osborne from on April 25th, 2010 | 1 Comment
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 ...
Written by Danielle Paquin from on February 20th, 2010 | 0 Comments
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 ...
Written by Duke Osborne from on February 9th, 2010 | 3 Comments
“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 ...
Written by Barb Ballard from on February 4th, 2010 | 5 Comments
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 ...
Written by Esther Rimer from on January 19th, 2010 | 0 Comments
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 ...
Written by Duke Osborne from on January 18th, 2010 | 2 Comments
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 ...