Category: Personal Stories

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To cue or not to cue. There is no question!

Written by Duke Osborne on September 13th, 2009 | 1 Comment

Our assignment — provide ten to fifteen most important pieces of advice for your child as he goes off next year to college.

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You Cue!

Written by Barb Ballard on August 6th, 2009 | 2 Comments

Today was a first for me.  While at the mall with my son, a lady walked up to me and said “You Cue!”.  Indeed as my son and I wandered through the mall talking, I had been cueing to him.  She was from neighboring Montgomery County, but we knew some of the same people.  I [...]

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17 Again: Back to the Future of Cueing …

Written by Duke Osborne on May 17th, 2009 | 1 Comment

At birth, I fell in love with my boy; it was love at first sight. … A portal to a different world opened. … Ben is a deaf cuer; I am cueing dad.

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London Calling

Written by Duke Osborne on April 26th, 2009 | 0 Comments

London, England
Cueing. The Rosetta Stone of literacy.

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Learning From Each Other

Written by Hilary Franklin on February 23rd, 2009 | 5 Comments

I 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 [...]

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Using Technology to Communicate

Written by Catharine McNally on February 9th, 2009 | 1 Comment

In another blog, I wrote about the increasing use of digital technology and how Keen Guides is using it to create more integrated experience for people of all languages and communication modalities. We’re hopeful that it creates dialogue when everyone has access to the same information. I think it’s important to create experiences for people [...]

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Argentine Journal — Fathers & Sons

Written by Duke Osborne on February 3rd, 2009 | 2 Comments

A Super Sunday? Absolutely! … Hearing or deaf, the love of a father and son endures.

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One Note at a Time

Written by Beth Blair on January 21st, 2009 | 2 Comments

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 [...]

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Do you Cue in your dreams?

Written by Barb Ballard on January 14th, 2009 | 8 Comments

I realized recently, that from time to time, I find myself Cueing in my dreams.  Sometimes it is when I’m communicating with someone to whom I would normally Cue, but in other dreams I find myself Cueing to people who have no knowledge of Cued Speech.  It seems that when I find myself Cueing to [...]

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New Year’s Resolutions.

Written by Catharine McNally on December 29th, 2008 | 3 Comments

I’ve never been a big fan of New Year’s until this year. I suspect it’s because my life used to revolve around the school calendar, from September ’til June. Now that I’m in the working world, there is getting to be some meaning behind our traditional calendar year, with a “new fresh” and a conclusion [...]

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