Video from a BSL user

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 [...]

Prosody II

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 meaning out of:
WITHOUT PROSODY

WITH PROSODY

What were [...]

Cued Speech at NOVA Community College

This fall the Northern Virginia Community College will offer “Cued American English: Level 1″ for the first time.  The class will begin on August 24th and will meet on Mondays and Wednesday from 5:30 to 7:20 pm. It will be worth 2 credits.  You will find the class in the course catalog under Interpreter Education.  You [...]

Cue Camp Virginia

Registration for Cue Camp Virginia 2009 is now open!  Visit http://www.nvcsa.org/blog/2009/06/01/ccva-registration-is-now-open/ to learn more.  Don’t forget that there’s a new date and a new location for 2009. 
Dates: 8/27/09 – 8/30/09
Location: Front Royal, Virginia
Research has shown that the family provides the most influential language model in the child’s early life. Cueing in the home has been proven [...]

Want to learn to cue?

Several Cue Camps are coming!  Here’s a listing of the ones I know about:
CueCamp FriendshipUrbana, MD
6/18/2009 to 6/21/2009
Cue Camp Friendship–June 18-21, 2009Make plans now to attend Cue Camp Friendship in its NEW location at the Bishop Claggett Conference Center overlooking the beautiful Sugarloaf Mountain! Conveniently located just minutes off I-270, 5 miles south of Frederick, [...]

Prosody I

I’d like to take a few posts to chat about prosody. Prosody is usually something that is only really covered in intermediate to advanced cue classes. Beginner classes are (of course) concentrated around getting you to learn how to cue words with at least a modicum of accuracy and fluency. But sometimes even cueing pros [...]

One Note at a Time

Imagine that you are a professional musician working every day and never playing the same piece of music twice.  Each evening you show up at the auditorium in your black tux and on a screen, you are shown only one note at a time, in rapid succession, not a standard piece of music with the [...]

Argentine Journal — The Constant Educator

Have you ever been disappointed that no one knows about cueing, about Cued Speech’s design as an ideal tool in overcoming deaf illiteracy?
I was at a friend’s son’s Bar Mitzvah last weekend (I have just loved saying that phrase; such joy to use a double possessive). In a quieter moment, it was revealed through [...]

Back To School

Many school districts have been back in school for a week or more, but Fairfax County Schools began classes this week.  As everyone finds themselves slipping back into those school day routines, it a good time to take a look at what our own expectations are for our children.  Parents need to help their children [...]

The Cued Speech Program in Fairfax County, Virginia

There 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 [...]