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Barb Ballard

Cue Camp VA is all a Twitter

Written by Barb Ballard on August 20th, 2009 | 0 Comments

Are you on Twitter?  Cue Camp Virginia is.  You can become a follower at http://twitter.com/CCVA.  CCVA hopes to be posting updates to Twitter through out the camp weekend of August 27th to August 30th.  So, if you can’t come to camp, you can still follow along with what is Read More ...

Barb Ballard

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 Read More ...

Duke Osborne

Happy Independence Day!

Written by Duke Osborne on July 4th, 2009 | 1 Comment

Greetings on the Fourth of July — with reading, our deaf children are always independent in learning

Barb Ballard

Cued Speech at NOVA Community College

Written by Barb Ballard on July 1st, 2009 | 1 Comment

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 Read More ...

Barb Ballard

Cue Camp Virginia

Written by Barb Ballard on June 4th, 2009 | 0 Comments

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, Read More ...

Barb Ballard

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, for fifteen minutes, Read More ...

Duke Osborne

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.

Duke Osborne

London Calling

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

London, England
Cueing. The Rosetta Stone of literacy.

Barb Ballard

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie Can He Cue?

Written by Barb Ballard on March 30th, 2009 | 0 Comments

The answer is YES if it’s at the Adventure Theatre in Glen Echo, Maryland.  Adventure Theatre will have a Cued Speech performance of If You Give A Mouse a Cookie, on Thursday, April 9th at 1:30pm.  Adventure Theatre is willing to do more Cued performances if they see that there is a Read More ...

Barb Ballard

Want to learn to cue?

Written by Barb Ballard on March 18th, 2009 | 0 Comments

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 Read More ...