Video from a BSL user
Written by Barb Ballard on February 4th, 2010 | 4 CommentsI 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 Speech together with signing, and is going back to school to relearn it. I find her openness and willingness to learn Cued Speech to be refreshing. I so often see negative posts from those who’ve never learned Cued Speech.
I wish I knew more about this lady’s background. I wonder why she switched at age 7. I wonder if her family, or school, or someone else was the primary influence for the change. I wonder how she will do learning as an adult. I hope I find more videos from her.
Just in case you can’t see the video, here’s a direct link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSs4PTV8UPs
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- Barb is the parent of a child with a moderate to severe hearing loss. Her son was diagnosed as post-lingually deaf and it is believed that his hearing loss was the result of intravenous antibiotics. She learned to cue after he was diagnosed as hearing impaired. Together with her husband Don, they live in rural Clifton, Virginia. Their son attends Fairfax County Public Schools where Cued Speech is supported by the Deaf/HOH program.
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February 4th, 2010 at 5:35 pm
This was great! thankx so much for posting it!
February 4th, 2010 at 5:52 pm
Holy crap! Thanks for finding this video… really fascinating. I hope she follows up with more, about her progress (or lack thereof, since she’s an adult now). She seems to have some phonemic awareness built in, so maybe she’ll re-learn somewhat quickly…who knows?
February 18th, 2010 at 12:44 pm
Speaking of ‘holy crap’ – I just saw this clip of a student who was learning Cued Speech in Kelly Crain’s program in Florida. This is her final performance at the end of one semester of CS. Very good for a beginner! (It’s a transliterated song, with the man’s voice on one hand and the woman’s voice on the other — and sometimes both voices/hands simultaneously. I’m curious what native cuers think of this technique.) Does anyone know who she is, and where she is now?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjKj48xTdBs&feature=related
February 20th, 2010 at 7:28 pm
What I’ve noticed as I’ve been living here is the mainstream education here is behind what I experienced America. I remember going to Northern Ireland and not hearing about other deaf students in mainstream school. Although when I went to Oxford, I was a guinea pig in testing if the fire alarm worked for a deaf person coming into the university after my visit. I’m currently working on my museum studies and I cannot believe some of the views that some museum workers have of deaf people (one said she didn’t think deaf people could read the labels, another was like “Are they actually able to visit the museum? They are a certain education aren’t they, apart from you?”). I hope to change people’s perceptions as I work my way into the museum sector and my hope is to write an article in the Museums Journal along the way.