™ OnOn CueCue Volume 31 Issue 1 Winter 2019 NCHAM Survey Shows Cued Speech Use Nationwide By Benjamin Lachman The National Center for Hearing Assessment and Management (NCHAM), which was responsible for the creation of the Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) framework that is currently responsible for a large chunk of Early Intervention NCHAM EI SNAPSHOT REPORT (2018) (EI) services for children who are deaf or hard of hearing The usage of Cued Speech as a they were provided by their state-level EI in the United States, published an EI communication mode was included in providers with an emphasis on access to Snapshot Survey Report in 2017. The this survey. NCHAM asked questions of a family-to-family support organizations. purpose of this snapshot survey report was sample of caregivers from ten states across The families who completed surveys had to “assess the early intervention system in the nation and asked several questions children between two and six years old. the United States for families of children about the quality of EI services that they Questions about communications who are deaf or hard of hearing (DHH).” received. Many of these questions focused modality asked families about how on their perceptions about the information NCHAM Survey continued on P. 9 Why Parents Should Cue At Home What’s Inside By Dr. Donna Morere Children’s brains are amazing machines. President’s Message 2 Which is Better, ASL or Cueing? 3 Parents want the best for their children. They are more complex than the most That’s why many parents of deaf children powerful super computer known to man. NCSA Advocacy - Position Statement learn to cue. However, often parents don’t However, even the most powerful computer Kindergarten Readiness 4 needs accurate information in order to work cue consistently at home. They have many NCSA Awards 2018 College reasons for this. They are struggling to learn properly. As the saying goes, “garbage in, Scholarships 5 to cue and want to wait until their cueing is garbage out.” Neuroscience research tells us more fluent. They are concerned that they that in order for children to learn NCSA Outreach 5 will make mistakes. They are slow and want they need ongoing, comprehensive, clear, NCSA Sponsors Cue Camps, Workshops accurate exposure to language input. That to be able to communicate with their child and CueSign Summit 6 more quickly. These are just a few of the means that when they see/hear a word, they Reflections on First CueSign Summit 8 reasons given. The thing is, our children need to see/hear it unambiguously and with NEED for us to cue to them as soon as the same every time they are Volunteers Needed 12 possible and as much as possible. And not exposed to it. Join the ROC Legacy Society 13 just to them – to everyone in the house. This Listening is hard – even with the best Easy Ways to Support the NCSA 14 way they get access to all of the language hearing equipment such as a cochlear Thanks to our Donors 15 modeling similar to what their hearing peers implant (CI) or digital hearing aid (HA) – receive. All of that time spent waiting until NCSA Family and Professional Support Why Parents Should Cue At Home, continued one is a “good enough” cuer is time that Weekends 16 on P. 10 the child who is deaf or hard of hearing has lost in learning language and having communication access. National Cued Speech Association 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Suite 190-713, Washington, DC 20004 [email protected] • www.cuedspeech.org 800-459-3529 National Cued Speech Association Volume 31 • Issue 1 • Winter 2019 President’s Message NCSA Affiliates As we reflect in 2018, at the NCSA we there is even AG Bell Montessori School are excited about the year we have had, a perception the places we have seen Cued Speech that it might 9300 Capitol Drive grow, and the lights in people’s faces as be the case Wheeling, IL 60090 they realize that communication in the and it keeps us 847-850-5490 language of the home is only a weekend marching ahead www.agbms.org away. to that vision. 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We have been different ways to learn Cued Speech, 800.459.3529 present as state legislatures discuss and and connect with others who can provide [email protected] support. vote and have been able to effect changes North Carolina Cued Speech that allow for representation by Cued To those of you who have joined the Association Speech advocates on state panels. family of Cuers in 2018, welcome. And 409 S Baldwin Ave to those of you who have long supported On another exciting note, we continue Spencer, NC 28159 us and embraced what we all know to to learn of the increasing use of Cued (336) 408-2434 be a life-changing and life-long mission, Speech in the U.S. as reported in two [email protected] separate independent studies (see page we wish you a 2019 that brings joy and 1 for information on one study). One of happiness to you and your loved ones. 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2 Championing effective communication, language acquisition, and literacy through the use of Cued Speech. National Cued Speech Association Volume 31 • Issue 1 • Winter 2019 Which is Better, ASL or Cueing? by Joan Boddicker One of the main accommodations to ensure she had My oldest daughter, who is advantages of “access” to the classes. Contrary to what hearing, recently asked, “Which learning Cued we had been told, choosing Cued Speech is better, ASL or cueing?” It’s a Speech was that we did not create obstacles for us. fair question, but it would have only had to learn In fact, since the time we chose Cued been better had she not asked it eight hand shapes Speech, I have discovered new reasons during Cued Speech class! The and four hand to appreciate it that I couldn’t have teacher made the point that the placements in order anticipated when we started down this two are different and are useful to produce any path. The biggest benefit is the ability to in different ways. Later, as I word in English. show the sounds of the words I am saying: discussed with her our reasons We didn’t have the last name of a friend, the words of the for choosing Cued Speech over to learn the whole song all her friends like, or a word she saw 13 years ago, I had a chance to new language of on closed captioning of a movie. Cecelia Johnston evaluate the results. ASL. And we could In addition to hearing loss, our daughter My husband and I learned that our use those same hand shapes to make all has some cognitive and learning second daughter was deaf when she was the new words that were coming with new challenges that result in difficulty with ten months old. We were thrilled when we technology (iPhone, e-mail, wi-fi) and short-term memory and below-grade-level were told that she would likely receive a the many nonsense words of some of the reading and math abilities. Because of cochlear implant by the time she was 18 children’s books we had loved reading to her additional challenges, just being able months old. We thought that our older daughter. We could show the to read words is not usually enough. She would be for bath time and bed time and difference she was hearing between “aunt” needs an auditory and visual support to would be of little use once she learned to pronounced by her Minnesotan friends know, for example, that the singer’s name read. (awnt) and “aunt,” pronounced by her is Katy Perry not Pererry. By using Cued Iowan parents (ant). Most importantly, Speech, I can communicate to her exactly We had a niece who used hearing aids, we could help her learn to read the same and her school in Iowa used Signed Exact what she heard, even though they may way hearing children learn to read through not be words I want her to know! Now English (SEE). Her mother explained that phonemic awareness. One of the most kids who use ASL often have difficulty that she can read, she is not dependent amazing studies I came across reported on Cued Speech to get information, but it reading at grade level, so the school used that when deaf cuers read they process SEE signing to help match ASL signs to is still great support in school situations language in their auditory cortex, the same where there is often a lot of background English. That was how we first heard of way hearing people do. a reading gap which often exists between noise, and where lectures and instructions deaf and hearing children. It was also how Since the time we committed to Cued may be fast and include words outside her we first learned that ASL and English were Speech 13 years ago, I’ve had occasion to everyday vocabulary. different . wonder if it was the correct choice. Right Finally, as I begin to worry about up front we were told that it would be her social development, I believe that As we did more research, we found that difficult to get people to support us in the language development started much earlier being conversant in English, even at a school system. Most Teachers of the Deaf level below her peers, gives her more than spoken language, so it was important and Hard of Hearing (DHH) learn sign to “get language into her” before she options than if she communicated more language or auditory-oral communication expressively in ASL given the other could actually hear it at 18 months. At methods. Cued Speech, unfortunately, was the same time, we were being told that learning challenges she has. Hearing loss not a communication option supported in is a low-incidence disability. By being with her cochlear implant, our daughter’s the DHH teacher program in Minnesota. hearing would be “nearly normal,” so able to communicate in English, she all she would need was some training in Luckily, our school district did will have more options when it comes to listening. The mixed messages were really not question our chosen mode of finding people of similar abilities with confusing, but in the end, we chose Cued communication or make it more difficult whom she can socialize. Speech because it provided what worked for us. When our daughter was three Looking back, I believe that Cued Speech best for our family: and entered Early Childhood Special was the best choice for us. It is not a Education, the school district found a matter of being better or worse than ASL, • Easily learned and adapted by our para-professional who was willing to family it is just different, with different purposes learn Cued Speech and transliterate and different uses. • Access to all words in English for our daughter. When our daughter took gymnastics and swimming classes Joan Boddicker is a parent from the • Phonemic awareness to support through community education, we were Minneapolis/ St Paul area of Minnesota. reading skills able to request a transliterator and other

Championing effective communication, language acquisition, and literacy through the use of Cued Speech. 3 National Cued Speech Association Volume 31 • Issue 1 • Winter 2019 NCSA Advocacy Position Statement: Kindergarten Readiness for Deaf Children Legislation regarding “Kindergarten protect parents’ right to select which is committed to supporting its state readiness” for deaf and hard-of hearing language they will use with their stakeholders to make sure that clear children has been sweeping the country. children.” (AGBell Press Release, Oct provisions for accessing English and The premise behind Language Equality 2018) other spoken languages visually, such as and Acquisition for Deaf Kids (LEAD-K) We look forward to working with AGBell via Cued Speech, are included in state is that deaf children should enter and LEAD-K to make sure Cued Speech legislation. The NCSA supports deaf kindergarten having equivalent, age- and cueing services are represented in children having access to the primary appropriate language development similar the bill. Federal law provides that Cued language(s) of the home, which can to their peers. The National Cued Speech Speech and cueing services are ensured include both ASL and spoken languages. Association (NCSA) agrees that, “when along with oral and signed language The NCSA believes that Cued Speech provided with access and opportunities, services for infants, toddlers and school- should be integrated into any legislation the Deaf child has normal ability to age children. (Parts C and B of the so that families who have English or develop language. The Deaf child who has Individuals with Disabilities Education another spoken language as their native the foundation of language will acquire Act). Recent studies suggest that while language are appropriately represented. By English literacy.” (http://www.lead-k.org/ 12% of families use Cued Speech as their providing access to the spoken language about/). primary mode of communication, families of the home via Cued Speech, deaf LEAD-K 2018 do not receive adequate information about children born to hearing parents can be AG Bell and LEAD-K leaders recently cueing. (National Center for Hearing kindergarten-ready. agreed to adapt a model LEAD-K bill Assessment and Management Early Contact the NCSA LEAD-K Committee that will be available for states to use as Intervention Snapshot). Accordingly, it is co-chairs at [email protected] a template. The NCSA is thrilled by this the NCSA’s position that Cued Speech and and [email protected]. cueing services must be represented in any successful collaboration and supports the Works cited: major tenets of the template. The NCSA legislation addressing language acquisition supports AGBell and LEAD-K’s aim to for deaf children. http://www.lead-k.org/about/ “provide parents balanced information State by State http://www.infanthearing.org/ei- about language acquisition in ASL and While a national template is useful, snapshot/docs/ei-snapshot-final-report.pdf English, understand language acquisition LEAD-K legislation happens at the state AGBell Press release October 2018 milestones, receive information on level, and each state may or may not available communication modes, and elect to use the template. The NCSA

4 Championing effective communication, language acquisition, and literacy through the use of Cued Speech. National Cued Speech Association Volume 31 • Issue 1 • Winter 2019 NCSA Awards 2018 College Scholarships Each year the NCSA is able to provide She humbly listened to the leaders at our active advocate for promoting care for two college scholarships. ministry sites, and sought to bring her (deaf and hard of hearing) individuals. The R. Orin Cornett Scholarship is a whole self to every experience. Jhenna has She testified on Capitol Hill in 2003 for $1,000 award given in memory of Dr. R. a clear heart to serve, and the emotional and mandated hearing screenings and more Orin Cornett, the inventor of Cued Speech. intellectual capacity to engage thoughtfully recently lobbied for insurance coverage for Established in 1997, the R. Orin Cornett in that service.” hearing devices in the state of Idaho. Scholarship Fund was created to aid “Because of Emily’s experience and qualified deaf or hard of hearing students to her character, she will be an excellent continue their education past high school. representative to promote Cued Speech. The Carol Shuler Scholarship is a $500 She has the award to a deserving student from the ability to both western states. Carol Shuler was a staunch communicate advocate of Cued Speech. with adults and get down Recipients of the scholarships must on the level of 1. Have used Cued Speech as their a child. I see primary mode of communication during Emily being a Jhenna Becker their language learning years OR for five or future leader in more years during their education, and Jhenna writes, “Because my parents anything she started learning Cued Speech right away, does. The skills 2. Be entering or attending vocational I was able to learn English without and experiences school, undergraduate school or graduate much language delay and have become a she obtains in Emily Jones school as a full-time student. successful student. I am so thankful for the her pursuit of law school will position her R. Orin Cornett Scholarship benefit that accessing English through Cued to be a professional defender of the (deaf The NCSA is proud to announce that Speech has brought to my life.” and hard of hearing) and their needs for Jhenna Becker of Bloomington, MN is Carol Shuler Scholarship effective communication.” the recipient of the 2018 R. Orin Cornett Emily Jones of Provo, UT is the recipient In her application, Emily writes, “Because Scholarship. The award is $1,000. of the 2018 Carol Shuler Memorial of my experience, and the success of Cued In her recommendation letter, Ms. Scholarship. This is a $500 scholarship and Speech in my life, I will stand by the NCSA Becker’s pastor said, “Last summer, I took happily an anonymous donor has stepped and help them fulfill their mission. I will be a group of high school students, including forward to match the scholarship, so Emily a positive role in the community by giving Jhenna, to Chicago for a trip focused received $1,000 toward her college back and showing others what is possible on service and learning in the city. Our education. through Cued Speech.” group learned about what it means to do In her recommendation, her audiologist . justice that is relational and sustainable, said, “Emily is in large part the gold Scholarship applications and I saw Jhenna grow significantly in standard of what Cued Speech can do to for 2019 will be available her understanding of systemic issues and help (deaf and hard of hearing) individuals on www.cuedspeech.org as what her role might be in addressing them. achieve excellence. Emily has been an of April 1, 2019. NCSA Outreach at State and National Conferences In 2018 the NCSA exhibited its booth at many state and national conferences. The NCSA was present at the Early Hearing and Detection Intervention Meeting in Atlanta, the AG Bell Conference in Scottsdale, AZ, the ASHA National Conference in Boston, MA, the Hands and Voices Leadership Conference in Cheyenne, WY, and many more! Thanks to the many volunteers for their help hosting the NCSA booth at these many Aaron Rose and Ben Lachman at the Hands Sarina Roffé at the NCSA booth at the Early conferences! and Voices Leadership Conference in Hearing and Detection Intervention Meeting in Cheyenne, Wyoming Atlanta, GA.

Championing effective communication, language acquisition, and literacy through the use of Cued Speech. 5 National Cued Speech Association Volume 31 • Issue 1 • Winter 2019 NCSA Sponsors Cue Camps, Workshops, and CueSign Summit In 2018, the NCSA sponsored four cue and participated in arts and crafts, hiking, system in three days. The intermediate/ camps (Maine, Illinois, North Carolina games, and a hillside waterslide. Families advanced class worked on skills, including and Virginia), and the first CueSign enjoyed canoeing, archery and rock liaisons, flicks, prosody, and other skills. Summit (see article page 8). Two-day climbing. The next Spring Camp Cheerio This year the camp adopted the Bear, Cue workshops were also held for both is May 17 to 19, 2019. S’More, as its mascot. beginners and advanced beginners in Camp Chi-Cue-Go - Illinois During the day the children rotated Rochester, NY and Scottsburg, IN. Taking among cue games, nature and outdoor into account all courses combined, cueing Camp Chi-Cue-Go 2018 offered both a beginner and intermediate class to 38 games, and arts and crafts. They went was taught to hundreds of new parents on a bear hunt through the woods to find across almost every state. Funds were participants, 16 of them children. Five families and four professionals received Cue S’More, practiced their cueing, and often used to provide scholarships or decorated t-shirts. After a busy day of discounts to families in need so they could scholarships to attend thanks to the NCSA grant. The July camp was a roaring activities and classes, family time included attend and learn to cue, practice their swimming, fishing, boating and an evening cueing and improve their skills. success with participants from Illinois and Wisconsin. camp fire. The children performed “We’re Cue camps are two-, three- or four-day Going on a Bear Hunt” as a finale, cueing learning vacations where participants In addition to cueing, the children made as much as they could. Camp Mechuwana come together in a retreat-like setting. tie-dye tee shirts, sang songs, and had will be held Aug 14-18, 2019. fun dancing and acting out stories. They Participants attend classes where they Cue Camp Virginia - Virginia learn to cue, attend presentations, and also spent lots of time outside enjoying socialize with experienced cuers, both blowing bubbles and playing with balls. Aptly operated by the Northern Virginia hearing and deaf, during meal and break The next Camp Chi-Cue-Go camp will Cued Speech Association, Cue Camp times. Many of the camps offer activities be a joint event with CueSign Camp Virginia is held in Williamsburg, VA and such as tug of war, boating, swimming, held at the Illinois School for the Deaf has many loyal leaders and volunteers. and other physical activities after classes in Jacksonville, IL from July 10-14, Adult classes were held at several levels are over. Cue camp is meant to be fun 2019. It will be a unique, fun event and many of the cuers attending had a while simultaneously being a time to with opportunities to learn and practice chance to practice and learn cued language learn, grow and connect. both Cued Speech and American Sign transliterator skills. There were a total of 167 participants. Spring Camp Cheerio – North Language. Carolina Camp Mechuwana - Maine Children of all ages received cueing instruction, as well as fun activities such The 34th Annual Spring Camp Cheerio Mechuwana, the only cue camp in the as rope climbing, team-building activities, was held in the Blue Ridge Mountains, northeast, began in 1981 and is the oldest and arts and crafts. Down-time activities bringing together cuers from 13 states. known cue camp. Held in the woods, the included fishing, boating, and a tug of Classes were held at the beginner and camp offers beginning and intermediate war. Evenings were filled with a camp intermediate level. A Cued Language cueing classes, in both spoken English and fire and the camp dance, which featured Transliterator training program was also ASL. Camp participants included parents, the Limbo, won every year by Charles provided. A new young adult program was children, interpreters, signing and cueing Musser. The next Cue Camp Virginia will added this year. Children learned to cue adults, all learning the Cued Speech be held October 11-14, 2019. Spring Camp Cheerio

Two campers practice cueing. (L to R): Jonathan Mosher, Patrice Spillane, Clark Poole, Courtney Poole, Franki Harrah, and Harlan Harrah share their experiences cueing.

6 Championing effective communication, language acquisition, and literacy through the use of Cued Speech. National Cued Speech Association Volume 31 • Issue 1 • Winter 2019

Camp Chi-Cue-Go

Cue class participants practice their 4 cues with Stephanie- Heidi Herbon cues with two youth campers. Gardiner-Walsh.

Cue Camp Mechuwana

Six Mechuwana veterans joined the cue camp the last night for a BBQ, dance and Young campers practice their cueing at Cue campfire. Camp Mechuwana.

Cue Camp Virginia

Cue Camp Virginia 2018

Championing effective communication, language acquisition, and literacy through the use of Cued Speech. 7 National Cued Speech Association Volume 31 • Issue 1 • Winter 2019 Reflections on First CueSign Summit By Amy Fowler ASL class was taught What does it mean to be a CueSigner? by Amy People who consider themselves Crumrine; and CueSigners support total access to visual the Advanced language, be it through signed languages, ASL class cued languages, or some combination was facilitated of the two. vers are able to take full by Michelle advantage of multilingualism through the Showalter. use of these two modes. In addition In 1999, the first CueSign event, CueSign to classes, Attendees during the CueSign Summit at Gallaudet University Camp, was held. The focus of the camp summit a warehouse-style food mall, and several was providing families learning and social attendees could take in four different of us visited more than once, trying a tasty opportunities in either Cued Speech, ASL, presentations. CSS director Nicole Dugan international food offering or enjoying or both. The facilitators, all young adults, shared her experiences receiving support happy hour. Attendees could also take a did a great job providing programming for and access services while a student at the walking tour of the National Mall, and all ages. Rochester Institute of Technology, and see the Washington Monument, or shop in co-presenter Brian Milburn shared his Then, life happened. We got grown- Union Station. Another fun social option experiences on the same, but from the up jobs. Some of us started families of was participating in an escape room perspective as a former staff member. our own. Some moved to continue our activity planned and carried out by the educations, or for other reasons. Dr. Daniel Koo, professor of Psychology CueSign, Inc. board. at Gallaudet, gave a talk titled, “Setting the Four years later, in 2003, CueSign tried As for me, I greatly enjoyed getting to Bilingual Table,” which discussed some of again to host an event. Unfortunately, know the members of my class. They the ways in which Cued English supports that event did not get off the ground, for each contributed to the class and to language access and acquisition for a variety of reasons. In 2018, the time my growth as an instructor, by sharing people who are deaf or hard-of-hearing. was finally right for the next CueSign their experiences and knowledge, and Angela Kuhn, K-8 principal at the Illinois event. The first – but hopefully not the through the discussion that stemmed from School for the Deaf, laid out the process last! – CueSign Summit (CSS) was held thoughtful questions. that ISD went through in implementing at Gallaudet University from June 21-24, Cued Speech as an instructional option I want to take a moment to thank each 2018. for its students, and discussed some of the member of the CueSign, Inc. board At the inaugural CueSign Summit, visual impacts of cueing on the literacy skills of for their participation in planning and access to language was provided by the the students who cue. facilitating this event — without their use of and/or vision and intense efforts, this event Lastly, several adults who are deaf or Cued American English. In order to meet would not have happened. Thank you to hard-of-hearing participated on a panel, the needs of the staff and participants, the CueSign, Inc. President, Amy Crumrine; talking about their experiences as cuers, Access Team worked together to ensure Vice President, Angela Kuhn; Secretary, signers, or CueSigners. Tiffany Matthews, that all summit content was available in Megan Thomas; Treasurer, Daniel Feta Fernsler, Elizabeth Henry, Julie ASL, CAE, and/or spoken English. Koo; Cued Language Transliterator CueStore Ad Shoeman, and Grace Cogan shared their and Trainer, Lauren Tribby Pruett, The CueSign, Inc. board developed perspectives. TSC; Camp Director, Nicole Dugan; an innovative schedule that allowed all Every class and presentation carried Fundraising Chair, Elena Fernsler; and attendees to participate in all classes, with it the opportunity to earn RID CEUs. Education Liaison, Jennifer Cranston. A without having to sacrifice any learning Thank you to Lauren Tribby Pruett, TSC special thank you to Angela Laptewicz, or social opportunities. Participants could for setting up and processing RID CEUs Katie Koeppen, Vance Deatherage, take a Cued Speech class in the mornings, for all of the classes and presentations, Erin Daneke, and Frances Andrade for and an American Sign Language class and to Suhad Keblawi for assisting in donating their time and talents to make in the afternoons. The Beginning CS the collection of CEU paperwork for the successful communication happen. A final class was taught by Nicole Dobson; the presentations. thank you to the instructors, access staff, Beginning CS class for signers was taught and attendees for making it a fantastic And if that wasn’t enough, those of us by Vance Deatherage; the Intermediate summit. CS class was taught by Jill Burress; and at the summit could take advantage of the Advanced CS class was facilitated by all that being in Washington, DC has to Amy Fowler is a CLT, ASL interpreter, yours truly. The Beginning ASL class was offer. Gallaudet is conveniently located and certified instructor of Cued Speech. taught by Curt Kuhn; the Intermediate across the street from the Union Market, She lives in Lawrence, KS.

8 Championing effective communication, language acquisition, and literacy through the use of Cued Speech. National Cued Speech Association Volume 31 • Issue 1 • Winter 2019 NCHAM EI SNAPSHOT (continued from p. 1) informed they felt about the options available to them. Respondents were also asked whether or not they felt pressured to choose one option over another. Per the NCHAM report, “the majority of families also reported that they received excellent or good quality information about communication options except for Cued Speech.” Chart 4 in the EI SNAPSHOT report shows 76% of families reported excellent NCHAM EI SNAPSHOT REPORT (2018) to good information about Listening and including Cued American English. It was Spoken Language and 67% of families not specified what percentage of those regions to open a dialogue about how they reported excellent to good information families used Cued Speech. can serve as an information clearinghouse about American Sign Language. In These two insights about the use of Cued about Cued Speech. If you are an EHDI contrast, only 43% of families reported American English in 2017 offer a very affiliate and you are reading this article, excellent please feel free to connect with your to good regional representative with any questions information or requests you might have. Your region’s about Cued NCSA Regional Representative can be Speech. found under Regional Representatives at http://www.cuedspeech.org/ncsa/board. Additionally, 57% of Representatives are also encouraged families to offer Cued Speech workshops for reported fair families and professionals who work with to poor access children who are deaf or hard of hearing. to information The NCSA encourages cuers to become about Cued certified Cued Speech instructors, to write Speech. The articles in their local papers, and to present NCSA hopes their stories at state and local conferences. to address this By doing so, cuers can contribute to the discrepancy effort of getting accurate information to in the coming families of newly diagnosed children. years. How Can You Help? Families The NCHAM EI Snapshot Survey Report were asked NCHAM EI SNAPSHOT REPORT (2018) also reported that there is a significant gap to identify what mode of communication between EI service providers and Family they use in their home to facilitate the important perspective about where cuers Based Organizations (FBOs), and there is language acquisition process. Only 52% are as a community. It illustrates that a significant interest in collaboration with of respondents reported that they use families value the NCSA message about state-level EHDI affiliates and modality- just one mode of communication, with providing accurate and verbatim visual specific FBOs. 49% reporting listening and spoken access to the language of the home. If you are an organization that serves language and 3% reporting American What is the NCSA Doing? families in your area, reach out to your Sign Language as their sole mode of local EHDI affiliate and offer your communication. The cueing community’s goal is to ensure time and services to educate families In regard to Cued Speech, 12% of the that families are able to report excellent about Cued Speech, as well as provide total number of survey respondents access to information about Cued Speech/ continuing support to those who have reported using mostly Cued American Cued American English from their state- chosen to cue. level EI providers and EHDI affiliates. English as their primary mode of Benjamin Lachman is a native cuer and communication. Seventeen percent of To achieve that, the National Cued NCSA Vice President. respondents also reported using Listening Speech Association (NCSA) has asked its and Spoken Language supplemented regional representatives to reach out to by other modes of communication, EHDI representatives in their respective

Championing effective communication, language acquisition, and literacy through the use of Cued Speech. 9 National Cued Speech Association Volume 31 • Issue 1 • Winter 2019 Why Families Should Cue at Home (continued from p. 1) and the differences in many speech sounds fewer phonemes occur within tiny fractions of a second. For or other example, the difference between /ba/ and / combinations da/ occurs in the first 40/1000 of a second. depending on the JUMP PAGES The discrimination of these tiny differences type and quality is difficult. Even hearing people struggle of their optimally with this at times. For example, in noisy supported residual environments, hearing people may struggle hearing. Even to understand what the other speaker says. more challenging, Deaf and hard of hearing children (and adults) the word may be confront this struggle on an ongoing basis. perceived slightly Additionally, research has indicated that differently each even with CIs and HAs, hearing loss makes time it is heard. it harder to discriminate complex sounds Imagine trying to accurately. Indeed, listening is so hard that learn a new word even highly successful adult CI users need if it is neither clear Adam cues to his sister during a family game. nor consistent. Should the child try to the speech they are hearing to be more than While this is not a research paper, research supplement with speechreading (which is a 10 times louder than the background noise to examples may offer some perspective. A learned skill and depends on prior knowledge achieve the same level of accuracy as what study by Blamey and colleagues (2001) of the language to be effective), the child hearing adults can perceive during listening which directly compared CI users with would see /h/g/k/no sound/ + /ou/oh/aw/ when the noise is louder than the speech children with severe hearing loss using + /s/z/t/d/n/l/r/. If the child is not skilled at signal. hearing aids and found that both groups speechreading even more possible phonemes averaged about 40% correct on an open set Similarly, post-lingually deaf CI users (ideal would be encompassed by each mouth word-recognition task at ages eight to nine, CI candidates, as they already have language shape seen. Imagine the number of possible with improvements to about 50% by age 14. and auditory memory onto which they can combinations this would produce. It would Some children performed quite well while map what they hear with the CI) recognize be an overwhelming task for the child to others (in both groups) had very limited skills consonants and vowels with only about determine which combination the speaker even at the later ages. Similarly, a study by 70% accuracy. They must supplement this intended. This is for a simple one-syllable Geers and colleagues found that under ideal inaccurate speech perception with cognitive word. Now imagine trying to do this for every listening conditions (which almost never processes such as memory, visual attention, word the child is trying to learn. This process happen in the real world), eight and nine-year- and available visual input to clarify this is not only hard work; it is exhausting! And to old children with four or more years of CI use incomplete signal. make matters worse, the more tired the child were able to identify open-set words correctly becomes, the less the child will be able to use Indeed, the research suggests that CI users only 50% of the time through listening. this process effectively. use a multi-step process to analyze speech. Again, while some children performed This involves first determining if what they Ideally, the child could use the combination very well, others did not identify any words heard is speech, then analyzing the phonemes, of their limited residual hearing and the correctly. A later study by this group found then generating potential words that the sets incomplete information provided by that by high school the average open-set word of possible phonemes might produce, then speechreading; however, if you look at the recognition increased to about 60% correct using context and other available information examples above, you will notice that there is but that there continued to be a high degree of to try to determine which is the most likely a great deal of overlap between what is seen variability in the skills of individual children. word. Thus, even highly capable adults with and what is heard. While the combination Keep in mind that, for all of these studies, pre-existing language and listening skills will be somewhat better, it will still yield a the words were chosen to ensure that the have to work harder than their hearing peers wide array of possible “words” that the child children knew the words presented. In the to understand speech. Children learning may perceive as interchangeable. If the child earlier Geers study, using speechreading, the language are at an even greater disadvantage. already knows the word ‘house,’ s/he will be eight and nine-year-old children were able better able to guess which word the speaker To put this into the context of everyday life, to identify about 40% of the words correctly. intended (although it’s still a LOT of work). If take a word like ‘house.’ With limited hearing, With both listening and speechreading, the the child is trying to learn a new word, even with a CI or digital HA, the child scores on these familiar words increased to an s/he is confronting an extremely onerous task. will have incomplete information. If they average of 80%, but some children still did Now imagine the challenges that the child are trying to learn this as a new word, they not get any of the words right. Now imagine experiences if s/he is having to do all of this at may hear variations on house, gouse, ows, your child under normal (not ideal) listening the same time the child is trying to understand houze, gouze, ouz, haws, gaws, aws, hawz, conditions, where s/he would likely perceive what you are saying. gawz and awz. They may perceive even well under 80% of familiar words accurately.

10 Championing effective communication, language acquisition, and literacy through the use of Cued Speech. National Cued Speech Association Volume 31 • Issue 1 • Winter 2019 The child would likely struggle to understand By cueing, you provide even simple information and this incomplete your child with clear, information would leave the child vulnerable unambiguous language to not only missing individual words, but also input, making it possible key information. Thus, language learning and for them to learn the information are lost and miscommunication language of the home occurs. This results not only in limitations in naturally – and to interact reading and academic outcomes, it can also with the family as a fully result in social isolation - even within the included family member. family. In contrast to the negative When children are left to struggle through side effects of struggling to understand language through the forest of possible phoneme combinations Anson Brown cues to his daughter, Felicity. to try to guess which words the speaker incomplete auditory (or even What are the downsides of cueing in the intends, they use up cognitive resources audiovisual) signals, this has many home? Possibly some insecurity about how on this basic “what did she say” process positive side effects. When you cue and speak well you can cue or how quickly you can that could be used to support higher-order to your child who uses a CI or HA, you are cue. Maybe some frustration that your child language comprehension processes. Thus, actually doing auditory training all the time! doesn’t seem to be looking at you (they may processes such as syntactical analysis, Light moves faster than sound, so that be viewing your cues using peripheral vision, comprehension, analysis of deeper meanings, children see the cued phoneme just before so don’t let this stop you). Maybe even the relating new information to known they hear the spoken phoneme. Over time, fact that you are tired from a hard day at work information, organization of the information this trains their brains to know what that and you just want to talk with your spouse or for better memory storage and access, and sound means, thus supporting their listening one of the hearing children. What about the other aspects of thinking about what we hear skills even when cueing is not available. In upsides of consistent cueing? Think about may be unavailable to the child. essence, it helps to clarify the signal for the this from your child’s perspective. If you cue brain. Cueing while you speak literally trains Indeed, when required to analyze each word, consistently, it says to them that they are a your child’s brain to hear better. the child may not have sufficient resources valued member of the family. left to make sense of the full sentence at Children cued to consistently generally It allows children to learn the language even the most basic level. This is true even develop more advanced speechreading skills. and information that their siblings and other if they have accurately identified all of the This is both because speechreading is part of hearing peers receive in a manner that is words in the sentence (which is unlikely the cued signal and due to the fact that these accessible rather than onerous. It helps them based on the above research). Research has children develop better language skills and to learn to read and achieve in school to the shown that children need the clearest (most knowledge about the world. They are able best of their abilities. It prevents them from unambiguous) signal possible to learn the to use their knowledge of the syntax and having to work harder to understand you and phonology (sounds), morphology (smallest grammar of the language to determine the the rest of their family. It allows them to be meaningful parts of words), vocabulary, and type of words to expect while simultaneously kids. syntax and grammar of a language. using their knowledge of the world to use As a mother, I see my job as breaking down Thus, when trying to struggle through this context to further limit the likely choices from barriers that limit my child, not to make their process for most or all of their language the set of possible words perceived. It’s still life easy. Children should confront challenges input, they are left with little opportunity to a guessing game, but it is one in which these in order to learn to overcome them. On the learn vocabulary or the rules of grammar children have a stronger advantage. other hand, they shouldn’t have to confront and syntax. Additionally, when their access Cueing consistently to your children allows barriers to functioning in everyday life due to language is limited, they are also limited them to learn to read in a manner similar to to having been born deaf or hard of hearing. in their ability to learn information. This is hearing children. They are able to isolate Consistent cueing in the home removes those why many deaf children and adults have and play with the sounds of words (without barriers, at least in that setting, and gives them unexpected gaps in knowledge which have the need for any level of residual hearing!) the tools to manage those barriers in the rest been observed even in research with deaf and are therefore able to learn to “sound of the world. So cue, even if you are slow, college students. out” words in print and relate them to the even if you make mistakes. Cue as if your words they know from being cued to in Cueing what you say takes all of this child’s life depends on it. It does. additional work away. It’s a little more work everyday life. Cueing can help your child to Dr. Donna Morere is a professor of for you, but a LOT less work for them. target speech phonemes and improve speech psychology at Gallaudet University, and The target phonemes are clearly visually production. This is especially effective if the a licensed psychologist specializing in accessible. Even a very slow parent who child cues expressively, but it can also help if neuropsychological assessments in children makes mistakes is better than the struggle your child is trying to say a word and you cue who are deaf. She is also a parent and confronted by the child presented with the it to them. This helps them see the sequence member of the NCSA Academic Advisory above tasks. of the phonemes they are trying to produce. Council.

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