2023 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 5-7, 2023 • Cincinnati, OH
DUKE ENERGY CONVENTION CENTER
3/07/2023 | 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM | Cued Languages with Babies and Young Children | DECC 211
Cued Languages with Babies and Young Children
Early, consistent, visual access to an accurately modeled spoken language is critical for language acquisition, literacy development, and later academic success. The presenters 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 presenters will show how cued language can be used at each of these stages to easily allow infants and toddlers to see, and therefore acquire, the spoken language(s) of their home from native speakers. The importance of EHDI’s 1-3-6 plan 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 infants and toddlers 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 child’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 young child who is deaf/hard of hearing.
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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.
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Danielle Paquin
(), National Cued Speech Association, Danielle_joy@sbcglobal.net;
Danielle is a certified Listening and Spoken Language Specialist and Teacher of the Deaf at New England Center for Hearing and Rehabilitation in Hampton, Connecticut. She taught for 12 years at Sunshine Cottage School for Deaf Children in Texas. She has participated in AGBell LOFT as a facilitator for many years and has been involved in many other AGBell committees. She is bilaterally implanted and learned Cued Speech while in college. She is a Board member of the National Cued Speech Association and the Cued Speech Association of New England.
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