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Written by Barb Ballard on June 23rd, 2010 | 0 CommentsI’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 I learned [...]
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie Can He Cue?
Written by Barb Ballard on March 30th, 2009 | 0 CommentsThe answer is YES if it’s at the Adventure Theatre in Glen Echo, Maryland. Adventure Theatre will have a Cued Speech performance of If You Give A Mouse a Cookie, on Thursday, April 9th at 1:30pm. Adventure Theatre is willing to do more Cued performances if they see that there is a demand. Currently, they [...]
Cued Children’s Stories
Written by Barb Ballard on December 4th, 2008 | 0 CommentsThe National Cued Speech Association has recently published, on YouTube, a series of new videos on Cued Speech. They did a really good job! The videos include captions for those who cannot hear the audio or read the cues. This one is entitled Cued Children’s Stories and it includes the cued versions of several familiar [...]
Smarter Than a 5th Grader?!?
Written by Beth Blair on September 12th, 2008 | 2 CommentsWhat I really love about September is that none of the erasers have been chewed off the pencils. Yet. The last blog that I wrote has a comment from Esther asking if I have cued in all of the grades yet. That’s funny because my colleagues joke that we should, by now, be smarter than [...]
The Cued Speech Program in Fairfax County, Virginia
Written by Aaron Rose on May 23rd, 2008 | 0 CommentsThere is a large population of deaf children in the DC region, and Fairfax County Public Schools have created programs to accommodate the different communication modes for those children. One such program is the Cued Speech Program, which consists of Canterbury Woods Elementary School, Frost Middle School, and Woodson High School. My friend Josè, a [...]
