Learning From Each Other

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 [...]

Using Technology to Communicate

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 in [...]

Argentine Journal — Fathers & Sons

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

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 [...]

Do you Cue in your dreams?

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 [...]

New Year’s Resolutions.

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 [...]

More Cued Speech Informational Videos

There are actually a total of five video segments which the National Cued Speech Association has made available.  This one is the longest.  It’s called Who Uses Cued Speech?  The video shows both native cuers and hearing parents describe how and why they chose Cued Speech as the primary communication modality for their child/children.  I’m [...]

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 [...]

Argentine Journal (Fragments)

Refracted thoughts on Argentina, communication, empathy for Ben and his deafness:
(1) Can you ever really blend in when you are an outsider? Should you?
In the first day or two of our journey to Argentina, my daughter Maddie seemed oddly out of sorts when I cued to my son Ben, especially in [...]

Jabberwocky

Jabberwocky (in cued English with subtitles)

I wanted to share this YouTube video. It shows the Louis Carroll poem Jabberwocky being Cued. It also has subtitles for those who cannot cue read. Jabberwocky is a literary classic, but was meant by Carroll as a parody designed to show how not to write a poem. According to [...]