Cued Speech at NOVA Community College
Written by Barb Ballard on July 1st, 2009 | 1 CommentThis 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
Written by Barb Ballard on June 4th, 2009 | 0 CommentsRegistration 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 [...]
Learning Language
Written by Barb Ballard on June 2nd, 2009 | 0 Comments“Imagine, if you will, a family that has just had a new baby. These new parents never talk to the baby and somehow manage to keep the baby from most conversation until he is about two years old. At two, they decide it is the correct time for baby to begin to talk. Each day, [...]
Want to learn to cue?
Written by Barb Ballard on March 18th, 2009 | 0 CommentsSeveral 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, [...]
Learning From Each Other
Written by Hilary Franklin on February 23rd, 2009 | 4 CommentsI can’t count the number of times I’ve been in the hot seat. Or the number of times I’ve been on a panel of native cuers being asked questions about what it’s like being deaf, what we think about cueing, what our advice is for fellow cuers, parents, professionals, aliens, and maybe a marmoset here [...]
Prosody I
Written by Esther Rimer on January 29th, 2009 | 1 CommentI’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
Written by Beth Blair on January 21st, 2009 | 2 CommentsImagine 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 [...]
When I was learning to Cue
Written by Barb Ballard on November 10th, 2008 | 5 CommentsMany hearing parents who learn to Cue for their hearing impaired or deaf child have learned to do so while their child is still quite young. Some as early as infancy, others during toddlerhood. Since my son was not diagnosed with a hearing impairment until 2nd grade, I was working with different developmental milestones than [...]
Cueing vs. Cue Reading
Written by Barb Ballard on October 7th, 2008 | 4 CommentsA recent comment to one my earlier posts made me stop and consider the differences in learning to Cue vs. learning to Cue Read and consequently allowed me to contemplate on one of my own personal dilemmas. Tasha left a comment stating that she was relieved to learn that a hearing individual did not always [...]
When a deaf instructor teaches hearing people Cued Speech…
Written by Hilary Franklin on September 21st, 2008 | 0 Comments…it’s not just about mechanics and understanding which “th” words are voiced and which are voiceless. It’s about collaboration, understanding, and communication. Oh, and motivation.
I’m a native cuer. I’m also deaf—profoundly deaf. And I don’t exactly have the best auditory processing skills. I can discriminate the difference between high heels clacking down the hallway and [...]
