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 [...]
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, [...]
17 Again: Back to the Future of Cueing …
Written by Duke Osborne on May 17th, 2009 | 1 CommentAt 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.
London Calling
Written by Duke Osborne on April 26th, 2009 | 0 CommentsLondon, England
Cueing. The Rosetta Stone of literacy.
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie Can He Cue?
Written by Barb Ballard on March 30th, 2009 | 0 CommentsThe 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 demand. Currently, they [...]
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 [...]
Learning From Each Other
Written by Hilary Franklin on February 23rd, 2009 | 5 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 [...]
Using Technology to Communicate
Written by Catharine McNally on February 9th, 2009 | 1 CommentIn 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 [...]
Argentine Journal — Fathers & Sons
Written by Duke Osborne on February 3rd, 2009 | 2 CommentsA Super Sunday? Absolutely! … Hearing or deaf, the love of a father and son endures.
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 [...]
