2022 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Virtual Conference
March 13 - 15, 2022
3/10/2020 | 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Providing Visual Access to Spoken Language: Insights from a Parent and a Professional on using Cued Language | Empire A
Providing Visual Access to Spoken Language: Insights from a Parent and a Professional on using Cued Language
The diagnosis of hearing loss in a newborn or young child can be a shock to many parents. Families naturally want to communicate with their child, but may feel they don't know how. Shortly after diagnosis, parents are inundated with information. The options can seem endless, and professionals are often ardent supporters of one method based on their own exposure and understanding. There can be a lot of conflicting information and often not enough, leaving parents confused and overwhelmed.
The one thing that every professional can agree on is that access to language input needs to be established as soon as possible. Whether or not a family chooses amplification, it is indisputable that children with hearing loss benefit from clear, complete access to language via visual means. Some families choose American Sign Language, or sign supplemented speech.
What about families who want their child to have direct, complete, visual access to the spoken language of the home and their extended family and community? The Cued Speech system allows direct, complete, visual access to the phonemes of more than 60 spoken languages and dialects (and counting).
Join us as we provide a brief overview of the Cued Speech system for American English (Cued American English, or, CAE), and discuss the multiple benefits of providing visual access to the spoken language of the home, both from a professional's perspective and a family's perspective.
- Participants will become aware of and discuss implications of limited auditory access to language.
- Participants will become familiar with how the Cued Speech system works.
- Participants will become aware of some of the benefits of providing visual access to the spoken language(s) of the home via the Cued Speech system.
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Presenters/Authors
Lisa A Weiss
(), LAW Access Education LLC, coloradocues@gmail.com;
Lisa A. Weiss is a mediator and a public school policy expert. She provides direct instruction in self advocacy, work adjustment training, and communication access as a private educational interpreter with a family based cooperative School to Work Alliance Program called Solid Ground Denver.
ASHA DISCLOSURE:
Financial -
No relevant financial relationship exist.
Nonfinancial -
No relevant nonfinancial relationship exist.
Amy Hund
(), CueSign, Inc., Handjive76@gmail.com;
Amy Hund is in her twenty-fifth year of practice as an American Sign Language-English interpreter, and is in her first year as an ASL instructor at Topeka High School in Topeka, KS. Additionally, she was previously an NCSA certified Cued Speech instructor, and has been a working Cued Language Transliterator for five years. Amy graduated with a BGS from Wichita State University (Kansas) with a concentration in Sociology and minors in Psychology and Communication.
Amy has designed and delivered over one hundred hours of training for ASL interpreters, and for those learning CAE at beginning, intermediate, or advanced levels. Her passion for helping families communicate leads Amy to volunteer or work at several camps that support family communication development every year.
She is a board member of CueSign, Inc., an organization which promotes multilingualism through ASL and CS. When not doing any of the above, Amy is a published writer and blogger. You will find her work at www.alhund.com.
ASHA DISCLOSURE:
Financial -
No relevant financial relationship exist.
Nonfinancial -
• Has a Professional (Board member)
relationship for Board membership.