15th ANNUAL EARLY HEARING DETECTION & INTERVENTION MEETING
March 13-15, 2016 • San Diego, CA
3/15/2016 | 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Topical Session 5 | Pacific Salon 6/7 | 7 - Family Perspectives and Support
Cued Speech: Empowering parents to convey spoken language naturally, completely, and easily as a foundation for equal educational opportunity and full inclusion in the family
Cued Speech, as adapted for English, consists of 8 handshapes that represent consonant sounds and 4 locations around the mouth that represent vowel sounds. Consonant handshapes are cued in vowel locations to create a visual stream of phonemic information (sounds) that supplements what is seen on the lips and what is heard with the ears. It takes the average person only a day or two to memorize the system and a couple of weeks to develop the fluency required to cue at a reasonable rate for an infant or young child. With this tool, parents (and others) can: 1) 'narrate the world' to a young deaf child, in the language of the home and/or school, providing unambiguous access to the sounds of spoken language -- and building vocabulary, syntax, and background knowledge naturally, just as one would with a hearing child; 2) read, sing, and/or recite poetry to the child giving him/her total access to the universe of literature, rhyme, culture, and fun that should be available to all children; and 3) facilitate more complete inclusion of the child within his family, neighborhood, and the world at large. Research will be summarized which supports the conclusions that use of Cued Speech, in the home and at school -- but especially at home: 1) assists in building a sound-based model of spoken language in a child's brain --priming the process of early reading development; 2) assists a child in building his/her fund of background knowledge and complex language structures that have been identified as key to developing age-appropriate reading levels as measured by tests of reading comprehension; and 3) prepares a child to more quickly and effectively adapt to and use assistive technologies, including implants (although no hearing is required in order to use Cued Speech).
- Use the Cued Speech system, with the aid of a single card showing the 8 consonant handshapes and 4 vowel positions, to correctly cue and say any word in a way that makes every sound visible to a deaf child
- Understand and explain to others how the Cued Speech system conveys sound visually, thus supporting phonemic awareness and understanding of rhyme, both of which contribute to development of early reading skills
- Identify key ways in which Cued Speech can be implemented to accelerate mastery of the spoken language of the home and increase the child's fund of general knowledge as a foundation for building age-appropriate verbal communication and literacy skills from the earliest ages through adulthood
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Presenters/Authors
Sandra Mosetick
(Primary Presenter), Alexander Graham Bell Montessori School and AEHI, sandy.mosetick@agbms.org;
Sandy has used and advocated for Cued Speech for 22+ years. She has taught workshops, presented at conferences and, in 2012, organized a professional development seminar in Chicago featuring renowned experts in CS from around the world. Sandy helped found a model CS program for educating deaf children ages 0-12 with their hearing peers and edited and co-authored the booklet, Open Doors: Options in Communication and Education for Children Who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing; Oticon 1998.
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Lisa Weiss
(Co-Presenter), Colorado Hands and Voices, weisslisa@me.com;
Lisa lives in Denver, Colorado. One of Lisa's three sons is deaf as a result of auditory neuropathy. Despite hearing screening in the hospital shortly after his birth and consistent follow up with audiologists and speech therapists, Lisa's son was not identified with auditory neuropathy until he was almost three years old. Lisa has been using Cued Speech for ten years with her son who has bilateral cochlear implants, is learning to sign, and communicates using spoken language. Lisa currently serves as a board member of Colorado Hands and Voices, the Interpreter Advisory Board for the Colorado Department of Education, and as a Commissioner representing the parent community for the Colorado Commission of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.
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