Guest Bloggers
Written by Barb Ballard on August 22nd, 2010 | 2 CommentsI’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 story? Let me know by leaving a comment to this post or by clicking on the link at the top of the page for “Submit Article”.
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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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October 21st, 2010 at 1:59 pm
We took six weeks of private cuing instruction for our daughter Julia. She has a moderate-severe hearing loss in both ears. I have high hopes that cuing will help when she can’t wear her hearing aids. To date she has little interest in watching Mommy and Daddy cue. I think we’re still to slow for her!
November 2nd, 2010 at 5:18 pm
Joey, Thanks for writing! I finally got a chance to take a look at your blog. It’s really great! Don’t worry about being slow. That comes along with more use. Being cued to at home is so great for kids. It’s funny though, I often felt that my son paid no attention to any of the cueing going on around him. Then, one day, his CLT from school told me that while the kid’s were having a “fun day” and playing games in the classroom, she was cueing everything going on and even cued what a boy behind my son had said. It was something about a movie he’d seen. My son immediately turned around and jumped into the conversation about the movie, since he’d seen it too. That to me was confirmation that he’d actually taken in what was cued because I know he couldn’t hear well enough to follow a conversation going on behind him. I’ve also seen him respond to questions that were cued to him while he played his game boy. It amazes me how well he can follow a cued conversation through just peripheral vision! I also have realized that he’ll follow what’s being cued if he misses what was said. I’ve watched him listen to someone talking while a CLT is cuing and I’ve seen him look over to the CLT to catch a word or phrase the he knows he didn’t get. So, the more you cue, the more she will absorb it. She may not even realize how much she relies on the cues until she’s talking with someone who doesn’t cue.
Keep up the good work!