If you haven’t seen our first three videos, be sure to watch them before viewing the newest video!
Cueing to a Newborn
Cued Speech for Infants
#CueInfants Attending
AND our latest video –
Purpose of Video
To show our audience how we incorporate and expose our daughter to a wide range of vocabulary through Cued Speech, or more specifically cued American English.
Receptive Cueing
How do we know she understands what we cue to her without voice? She responds by looking/pointing in the direction of the object or location. At times, she will include meaningful cue babbling and she has a large range of words she understands. Some examples are: bed, diaper, shake (verb), fan (noun), and several body parts including the belly button, nose, ear, mouth, and toes. She also demonstrates comprehension of the question form “where,” such as in “Where is Mommy?” and “Where is the cat?”
Expressive Cueing
Our daughter has been trying to imitate our cueing for a few months now. In the last couple months, the open hand imitations have morphed into hand shapes 1 and 5 and most recently 6. She is rocking the vowel placements, which goes in line with typical language development where children will be able to express more vowels than consonants. Some examples of words we know she’s associating expressive cues with, aside from what is shown in video, include: milk, vacuum, water, cat, sheep, and mommy.
Verbal Language Acquisition
“Cued Speech enables a deaf child to learn verbal language in the very early years, so that he/she will think in that language even before being taught to make very many of the sounds of speech.” – Cornett and Daisey, Cued Speech Resource Handbook for Parents of Deaf Children.
We appreciate the efforts that Dr. Cornett made in educating parents about Cued Speech. However, we believe that it’s important to reframe Cued Speech as a universal way of expressing verbal language in the visual medium. Therefore, Aaron came up with a new statement.
“Cued Speech allows children to internalize traditionally spoken language(s) via a visual medium.”
From Parent to Parent
Keep cueing! We very well understand it can get tiring at times and you may start to voice more than cue. Try to remember to stick to cueing all the time and it will pay off in both the short and long run. It’s also very important to reinforce our children’s efforts to communicate expressively, regardless of how that may look.
Communicate with other parents for support. Sharing stories is a powerful thing. Realizing that other parent(s) may have the same or completely different obstacles will give you that extra push to keep at it.
Cueingly Yours,
Aaron & M-B
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