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• Native cuer inspires research – Read Article
  
  
• From the Baltimore Sun
  A different cue for the deaf
  'Cued speech' has produced strong academic results -- and a dispute
  By Gadi Dechter
  Sun reporter
  Originally published September 6, 2006. Dearchable through Baltimore Sun archives.
  
  
• Cued Speech: What and Why?
  (Rev. 2000) R. Orin Cornett, Ph.D.
  This article is a revision of one of my earliest articles on Cued Speech, intended for readers who need an elementary presentation of descriptive and explanatory material designed to clarify its nature and objectives. Read Article
  
  
• Cued Speech: Breaking the Paradigm
  Sarina Roffé
  Stories about the accomplishments of Cued Speech users have amazed deaf educators for years. Still, many professionals working with the deaf find it hard to believe that prelingually deaf children can achieve the same academic levels as hearing children. Here is one family that used Cued Speech to break the deaf education pattern. Read Essay [PDF]
  
  
• The Dumbing Down of Language
  Sarina Roffé
  Parents can foster their child’s language development by using appropriate language. Cued Speech, as described by one parent, facilitates language acquisition by providing a rich, accessible linguistic environment. Read Essay [PDF]
  
  
• Multiple Uses for Cued Speech
  Cued Speech was created for use by families of children who are deaf or hard of hearing. Cued Speech provides cued listening, cued phonemes, cued languages, and cued speechreading. Research and experience have proven the benefits of Cued Speech use for people who are deaf or hard of hearing. Read More
  
  
• Teacher Overcomes Late Start in English by Focusing on the Solution
  By Barbara Brite Lee
  When presented with a challenge - three new 7-year-old profoundly deaf students who were seriously language delayed - Julie Russell, a 26-year veteran teacher of the deaf, looked beyond the problem and focused on a long term solution, a solution that included using Cued Speech. Read More

Cue Camps

• Kids, Cueing, and Summer Fun
  By Theresa Koenig
  What makes teaching a kids’ cue class so seriously rewarding? For me, it’s the steady stream of questions and those wonderful break though moments when you can see and hear a student making sense of ‘this cueing stuff’. Read Essay [PDF]

Multiple Uses for Cued Speech:

• Speech-Language Pathologist Uses Cued Speech for Hearing Children
  By Anne Marie Dziekonski
  Carla Davidson is a speech-language pathologist at Longridge Elementary School in Greece, NY (near Rochester). She uses Cued Speech on a daily basis while providing therapy to with children who are not deaf or hard-of-hearing. Carla learned to cue eight years ago and has not stopped since! She became fluent in Cued Speech while working with deaf students in private practice. Read Essay [PDF]
  
  
• Cued Speech for Special Children
  By Pamela Beck
  Cued Speech is used with children with and without hearing loss for a variety of purposes, such as accelerating the learning phonics or speech or language instruction. The children may be typical children or have autism, apraxia, cerebral palsy, deaf-blindness, developmental disabilities or other learning needs. Our most special children are those who have one or more additional disabilities with their hearing loss. Read Essay [PDF]
  
  
• Cued Speech and Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
  Cued Speech has been and is being used with children who have autism and other Pervasive Developmental Disorders (PDD), as one part of individualized packages of special services. Read Essay [PDF]
  
  
• Down Syndrome & Cued Speech
  By Pamela Beck
  Speech pathologists were the first persons — beginning in the early 1980’s — to begin using Cued Speech with children with Down Syndrome and other developmental disabilities. Parents and educators followed their lead. This author has experience with three children with Down Syndrome, two boys six years old and a girl 4 years old. Each child was unique. Read Essay [PDF]

Professional Perspective:

• Cued Speech: Getting Started
  By Sarina Roffé
  Over the years I’ve taught many people Cued Speech and I’ve always found that when people leave class, or cue camp or wherever they have learned cueing, that they need several things to get started using CS successfully. I’ve seen people fail miserably, mostly because they don’t use it; and I’ve seen families be tremendously successful. Read Essay [PDF]

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