Have You Registered for the NCSA Conference Yet?

Have you registered for the NCSA conference yet?

• The National Cued Speech Association (NCSA) is holding a conference in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the invention of Cued Speech as well as its advances over the last few decades. “Cued Speech – Celebrating Language, Literacy and Excellence” will take place at Towson University in Towson, Maryland, July 20-23, 2006.

• This is the only meeting in the country of its kind that brings together both the innovators in the field of Cued Speech and the people it most directly affects. This conference will provide a forum at which experts, educators and families can come together and share their experiences and expertise in the field of Cued Speech.

• Representatives attending the conference come from almost every state as well as Switzerland, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Finland and Poland. The program includes thought provoking seminars on subjects such as cochlear implants, early intervention, cued language transliteration and discussions of various applications for cueing.

• A Children’s and Teen Program will be held in coordination with the conference. See Program Highlights below for more information.

• A Gala Awards Dinner remembering the inventor of Cued Speech, Dr. R. Orin Cornett will be held. See Program Highlights below for more information.

• Scholarship funds are available to cover registration and board for deaf cue adults who wish to attend the NCSA conference. If you are interested, please email Natasha Nadel at Natasha@DershowitzGroup.com. Applicants should write a letter to NCSA president, Sarina Roffé, indicating who they are (parent, professional, etc.), the cost to attend, what efforts they have made to raise money for the trip, how much they can afford and how much they are applying for from NCSA.

• Register by July 1! The conference is coming up quickly! Click here to view the Invitation and Register today or go to http://www.cuedspeech.org/ and click on “Register by July 1!”

• For more information about the Agenda, click here or go to http://www.cuedspeech.org/ and click on “Details of Presenters and Topics.”

• Hurry – Hotel rooms won’t be available much longer! Information concerning Accommodations can be found here .

• In addition, ASHA CEU's will be offered.


Program Highlights

• Gala Awards Reception and Dinner: Remembering Dr. R. Orin Cornett
Saturday, July 22, 7:00-10:00 pm, Sheraton Baltimore North

* Keynote Speaker: Dr. Charles Berlin, Director of the world-renowned Kresge Hearing Research Laboratory at LSU Medical School in New Orleans.
* Special awards ceremony and an unveiling of Dr. Cornett's portrait, as well as a reflection on the history of Cued Speech.
* Tickets for this event can be purchased through the online registration process.
* Honor someone special and support NCSA’s work by buying an ad in our Gala Dinner Journal. Click here for more information or go to http://www.cuedspeech.org/ and click on “Honor an Award Recipient.”

• Three very accomplished deaf cue adults with impressive credentials will receive awards that will be presented at the Gala Awards Dinner. Please help us honor these wonderful individuals who have accomplished so much on behalf of the Cueing community.

Cueing Leadership: Amy Crumrine
Cueing Service for Research: Dr. Daniel Koo, Georgetown University
Cueing Service for Support: Brad Buran, Student at MIT

• Children’s Program: (5 -10 years) Program highlights include visits to the National Aquarium, the B&O Railroad Museum and arts and crafts and swimming!

• Teen Program: (11-17 years) Program highlights include visits to the National Aquarium, ESPN Zone and rock climbing and a teen party!

Please circulate this to others who may be interested and please email Natasha@DershowitzGroup.com if you have any questions!

Amy is my cousin and Im very proud of her!

The conference was a blast! The French lady showed the results that literally blew my mind away - deaf cuers were able to outperform not only deaf signers and oralists but also the hearing, one by a significant 60% in one of the grammar tasks.

They did the MRI tests and found that deaf cuers process the same phonemes as the hearing process which explains why deaf cuers have no problem learning to read.

The cuers outperformed the hearing in terms of rhyming. They were more accurate with rhyming than the hearing.

But I had a lot of fun socializing with deaf native cuers! It rocked!

I seriously doubt that someone who uses cued hearing is so much likely to be better at grammar and rhyming than other people with hearing loss.

Sounds like bogus research to me. It's feel good research for an organization to say that they're better than everyone else, so give us money and power for this magical solution for your child to be "hearing."

I seriously doubt that someone who uses cued hearing is so much likely to be better at grammar and rhyming than other people with hearing loss.

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Do you know cued speech?

Sounds like bogus research to me. It's feel good research for an organization to say that they're better than everyone else, so give us money and power for this magical solution for your child to be "hearing."

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They did a long term study on deaf groups - oral, CS, sign (LSF), and the hearing in France. The study clearly says that cuers performed better than the rest of the groups. The results speak out loudly. The researchers no longer believe that CS is just a "code" but rather conveys LANGUAGE. That's why they call it, "Complete Spoken Language" in French instead of "cued speech." Unfortunately, we don't have that kind of study here in USA although many small studies showed that the cuers performed as well as the hearing.

All deaf cuers told me they would definitely GO to a deaf school if Cued English is used as the language of instruction.

netrox said:

But I had a lot of fun socializing with deaf native cuers! It rocked!

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Just curious; Don't read too much into my question, though! Do you cue to each other? Or do you use sign language?

One reason why I think I've never seen someone cueing is that most cuers, I suspect, already picked up on sign langauge and use that as their communications method later in life.

Eyeth said:

Just curious; Don't read too much into my question, though! Do you cue to each other? Or do you use sign language?

One reason why I think I've never seen someone cueing is that most cuers, I suspect, already picked up on sign langauge and use that as their communications method later in life.

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I do use ASL however at the NCSA, I used both. I used CS most of the time but we do switch to ASL at times. It just depends on conversations.

Netrox, thank you for sharing your experience with us! It's a shame that CS hasn't garnered enough praise and attention for what it has done for deaf children, even within the field of educational linguistics in the U.S. No surprise about it as usual.

CS doesn't seem to be common on the West Coast as it is on the East Coast. When I was a child, one of my deaf friends used CS, so my family and I learned it from him. His mother was also a CS interpreter. That was the extent of our network for CS usage, which ended abruptly when the family moved to Maryland, where there's a huge community of support for CS users.

Just a thought. If the bilingual-bicultural method is considered the best kind for educating deaf children, why not incorporate CS in the existing academic curriculum to teach them English? Half of the classes could be conducted in ASL, the other half in Cued English, and the students can choose either one to communicate with each other on the playground. That'd exploit the full benefits of a bi-bi enviroment, wouldn't it?

Mepunctured, that's an awesome idear!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Just a thought. If the bilingual-bicultural method is considered the best kind for educating deaf children, why not incorporate CS in the existing academic curriculum to teach them English? Half of the classes could be conducted in ASL, the other half in Cued English, and the students can choose either one to communicate with each other on the playground. That'd exploit the full benefits of a bi-bi enviroment, wouldn't it?

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I think the Bi-Bi (Cued English-ASL) education is being implemented in some Minnesota schools. It would definitely be interesting.

YEAH!!!! An ASL-CS highbrid model of learning would be awesome. Deaf kids could learn English content without having to concentrate on speech. I think part of the reason why oral kids have such low acheivement levels is b/c they don't concentrate on content, but rather they have to concentrate so intensively on how to interpret things.