2023 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 5-7, 2023 • Cincinnati, OH
3/02/2021 | 3:15 PM - 3:35 PM | Cueing with Babies | Topical Breakout
Cueing with Babies
Early, consistent, visual access to an accurately modeled spoken language is critical for language acquisition, literacy development, and later academic success. Dr. Earl will demonstrate how the system of Cued Speech works in visually clarifying the phonemes of spoken languages to develop a mental model of that spoken language and allow children to perform comparably to hearing peers on phonemic awareness, internal speech recoding, phonics, rhyming, and spelling. The developmental stages of sensory information processing in babies who are deaf and hard of hearing will be reviewed, focusing on hearing, vision, gestures/non-verbal communication, and verbal communication. The presenter will explain how Cued Speech can be used at each of these stages to easily allow babies to acquire the spoken language(s) of their home from native speakers. The importance of EHDI’s 1-3-6 program will be discussed as it relates to how we can better inform parents of all the communication options, including Cued Speech, and provide early learning opportunities and modeling in the home from fluent deaf and hearing cuers. The importance of support from and collaboration with Deaf/Hard of Hearing mentors and Guides By Your Side who can cue with families who choose Cued Speech will be highlighted. Selected results of notable research on Cued Speech will be reviewed. Resources and videos of parents cueing with their babies will be shared.
- Explain when and why Cued Speech was invented and how the system facilitates language access and acquisition.
- State two ways parents can use cued languages in the home to imitate, validate, and encourage their baby’s early vocalizations and attempts at speech and language production.
- Provide two ways that states and professionals can provide support to parents who decide to use Cued Speech for language access with their baby who is deaf/hard of hearing.
Presentation:
23278_13643PollyEarl.pdf
Handouts:
Handout is not Available
Transcripts:
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Presenters/Authors
Polly Earl
(), National Cued Speech Association , mainecues@gmail.com;
Dr. Polly Earl has taught children with special needs for the past 42 years. She is a teacher of the deaf, special education consultant, President of the Cued Speech Association of New England, Certified Instructor of Cued Speech, and Outreach Director on the Board of the National Cued Speech Association. Her doctoral research was an ethnography studying a baby with Auditory Neuropathy Spectrum Disorder whose parents cued in Dutch and Spanish with her starting at eight months. This was the first known study to examine the simultaneous acquisition of two cued languages in a young deaf child.
ASHA DISCLOSURE:
Financial -
No relevant financial relationship exist.
Nonfinancial -
No relevant nonfinancial relationship exist.