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 [...]
Prosody II
Written by Esther Rimer on January 19th, 2010 | 0 CommentsThis 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 [...]
Practice, Practice, Practice
Written by Barb Ballard on December 2nd, 2009 | 1 CommentI guess this post is really aimed at those hearing individuals who are learning to cue, or who’ve learned to cue, in order to support someone who is either hearing impaired or using cued speech for other educational reasons. I want to talk about finding creative ways to practice and improve your cueing skills. I [...]
To cue or not to cue. There is no question!
Written by Duke Osborne on September 13th, 2009 | 1 CommentOur assignment — provide ten to fifteen most important pieces of advice for your child as he goes off next year to college.
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 | 2 CommentsI’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 [...]
