Guest guest Posted June 16, 2006 Report Share Posted June 16, 2006 Hi , Yes, we sign and cue. Our goal is to raise our daughter to be bilingual in ASL and spoken English. and we are trying to do everything we can to support that. Before she got her CI, we started with ASL because children pick up on it much more rapidly than cueing early on. We signed the vast majority of the time until our daughter got her CI. I did try cueing with her some, but she was much less receptive to it in the early stages when she was just learning language. I've seen that to be true with other children. Once my daughter got her CI, we started focusing more on spoken English to help her catch up in that. For the first few months after getting a CI, kids are just learning to make sense of it, so we make sure she had access to ASL when we wanted to teach her something or to share information with her. At other times we just spoke or spoke and cued to give her lots of practice with her CI. My daughter is now 4 and she's had her CI for 20 months now. She is doing great! She is on age level for ASL and her English is progressing very well but there's still catching up to do. She speaks in sentences and has a good vocabulary but since she got her CI late, there are gaps and work to be done to help her catch up. I use some cued speech with her, but I do not use it all the time because she needs a lot of practice just listening. Also, although she is pretty receptive to cueing now, but she hears so well that she often doesn't need to look at me when I am talking to her. I am not sure how much the cued speech helps her. I cue with her off and on and I'm a little confused about how much I should cue with her these days. IF we did not want her to sign as well, I think cueing would really come in handy for times when she cannot hear or can't hear well (in the bath & in the pool, in noisy situations, or if the battery dies or her CI malfunctions). I also think that Cued Speech would be helpful in school to ensure that a child doesn't miss things. She is in a bilingual preschool program (ASL and spoken English) and that is working beautifully for her so far. She will be in a pre-class in the fall, and she will be in a spoken English class at a bilingual deaf school. In class, they will focus on spoken English, but she will still have ASL storytime, have deaf, signing teachers for PE and drama, and she will use ASL with friends on the playground, etc.. We think it will be the perfect balance for her right now. For kindergarten, she may go to a different deaf school (a bit closer to home) where she'd get both spoken English and ASL OR she might go to an oral program or a cueing program. We're not sure about that. So, she may or may not end up mainstreamed and if she does, she may or may not get Cued Speech support in that environment. Very hard to know what would really be best for her! Feel free to ask me questions. > Has anyone had experience using both Cued Speech and ASL? > > My 2 year old daughter was diagnosed with profound HL 2 months ago > and is scheduled for simultaneous bilateral cochlear implants next > month (we began the testing process in January and just recently > received the diagnosis). > > After much research, we've decided to use Cued Speech. However, it > is taking us awhile to learn it and our daughter doesn't have the > patients to " listen " to us while we work on it. I figure it will be > easier after the implants when she can actually hear us (I hope). > > In the meantime, she is picking up on sign language like crazy (we > have the Singing Time DVDs which she LOVES) and I don't want to > discourage her from learning by boring her or loosing interest > while I try to Cue. Therefore, we are using both. I sign something > to her, gain her attention and then Cue it. > > I've heard from a couple people that doing both is extremely hard. > I'm actually finding it almost easier though because it seems she > understands the concept of the sign immediately and then learns the > word through Cueing over and over. > > Basically, for us, I'm looking at ASL in the short term and hope to > use Cued Speech in the long term but am questioning if that will > really work and REALLY hope I'm not totally confusing my daughter. > > Any input will be greatly appreciated. > > Thank you, > > > _ > > . > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 16, 2006 Report Share Posted June 16, 2006 Hi, , I honestly think that if both are working for your daughter, then go for it! I applaud you for being willing to learn not one, but TWO new communication methods, and I think the way you are using them with your daughter makes total sense. ASL is a visual language, and Cued Speech is a visual representation of spoken words, so you are giving your child language tools and speech tools all at the same time. Children can learn two languages at once, so why not ASL and Cued Speech? More power to you, I say. And ultimately, your child will let you know what¹s working and what isn¹t. Stefanie Mom to Ben, 7, severe/profound HOH, and Isabella, 11, mild loss on 6/16/06 12:00 AM, Garlitz at sbg0602@... wrote: > Has anyone had experience using both Cued Speech and ASL? > > My 2 year old daughter was diagnosed with profound HL 2 months ago and is > scheduled for simultaneous bilateral cochlear implants next month (we began > the testing process in January and just recently received the diagnosis). > > After much research, we've decided to use Cued Speech. However, it is taking > us awhile to learn it and our daughter doesn't have the patients to " listen " > to us while we work on it. I figure it will be easier after the implants when > she can actually hear us (I hope). > > In the meantime, she is picking up on sign language like crazy (we have the > Singing Time DVDs which she LOVES) and I don't want to discourage her from > learning by boring her or loosing interest while I try to Cue. Therefore, we > are using both. I sign something to her, gain her attention and then Cue it. > > I've heard from a couple people that doing both is extremely hard. I'm > actually finding it almost easier though because it seems she understands the > concept of the sign immediately and then learns the word through Cueing over > and over. > > Basically, for us, I'm looking at ASL in the short term and hope to use Cued > Speech in the long term but am questioning if that will really work and REALLY > hope I'm not totally confusing my daughter. > > Any input will be greatly appreciated. > > Thank you, > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 16, 2006 Report Share Posted June 16, 2006 Hi - if it's working for you guys and your daughter - no matter what the " experts " say - go for it! Each kid/family is so different. Way to go! Barbara Garlitz wrote: > Has anyone had experience using both Cued Speech and ASL? > > My 2 year old daughter was diagnosed with profound HL 2 months ago and is scheduled for simultaneous bilateral cochlear implants next month (we began the testing process in January and just recently received the diagnosis). > > After much research, we've decided to use Cued Speech. However, it is taking us awhile to learn it and our daughter doesn't have the patients to " listen " to us while we work on it. I figure it will be easier after the implants when she can actually hear us (I hope). > > In the meantime, she is picking up on sign language like crazy (we have the Singing Time DVDs which she LOVES) and I don't want to discourage her from learning by boring her or loosing interest while I try to Cue. Therefore, we are using both. I sign something to her, gain her attention and then Cue it. > > I've heard from a couple people that doing both is extremely hard. I'm actually finding it almost easier though because it seems she understands the concept of the sign immediately and then learns the word through Cueing over and over. > > Basically, for us, I'm looking at ASL in the short term and hope to use Cued Speech in the long term but am questioning if that will really work and REALLY hope I'm not totally confusing my daughter. > > Any input will be greatly appreciated. > > Thank you, > > > __________________________________________________ > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 16, 2006 Report Share Posted June 16, 2006 Hi , Yes, we use both! We began with sign language when my daughter was diagnosed as hard of hearing at 17 mos. After taking many, many classes I realized I wasn't going to become fluent in the time she needed me to learn it. So off to Cuesign camp we went. However, it still took me almost a year to really get cueing down. I absolutely LOVE having all these tools - speech, sign, cueing - in my toolbox. There isn't a day that goes by that I don't use all three with her. Cueing is a tremendous speech therapy tool. It's really wonderful for mastering new vocabulary. Its main drawback is that more people don't use it (I think we're one of just a handful in our state). My daughter was just implanted this spring after years with a progressive loss (she's now 7). I use cued speech during auditory training with her " new " ear - when she misses a word and wants to find out what I just said, I just cue it. She's a great lipreader but lipreading just doesn't convey enough information on its own. I should mention that she does not expressively cue, probably because I'm the only one who ever cues to her. Her speech is quite good. We generally use sign more than cued speech, and speech more than sign. WHATEVER WORKS! There's a Cuesign camp coming up in July in Towson, Md. They aren't offered all that often so it'd be wonderful if you could go. Here's the Web site: www.cuesigncamp.com. Good luck! Janet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 16, 2006 Report Share Posted June 16, 2006 Thanks for posting about the camp! We live in Towson and hadn't heard about it. We cue with so he and I may just volunteer. He doesn't cue or sign, but I do both satisfactorily though I'm kind of spoiled since he's mainly oral and I only cue in noisy environments and keep throwing in cues when I sign. If anyone is going, even if we can't go, I'd love to drop by and meet people on the list as we're only about 3 miles away. Actually my daughter transferred back from Carnegie Mellon and now goes to Towson University where it is being held. It's a really nice University. If you come, you should make time to go to the Inner Harbor and visit Fort McHenry and the old ships in the harbor. There are also some great World War 2 vessels in the harbor that are really fun to tour....especially for guys...or females who like guy's stuff. -------------- Original message -------------- Hi , Yes, we use both! We began with sign language when my daughter was diagnosed as hard of hearing at 17 mos. After taking many, many classes I realized I wasn't going to become fluent in the time she needed me to learn it. So off to Cuesign camp we went. However, it still took me almost a year to really get cueing down. I absolutely LOVE having all these tools - speech, sign, cueing - in my toolbox. There isn't a day that goes by that I don't use all three with her. Cueing is a tremendous speech therapy tool. It's really wonderful for mastering new vocabulary. Its main drawback is that more people don't use it (I think we're one of just a handful in our state). My daughter was just implanted this spring after years with a progressive loss (she's now 7). I use cued speech during auditory training with her " new " ear - when she misses a word and wants to find out what I just said, I just cue it. She's a great lipreader but lipreading just doesn't convey enough information on its own. I should mention that she does not expressively cue, probably because I'm the only one who ever cues to her. Her speech is quite good. We generally use sign more than cued speech, and speech more than sign. WHATEVER WORKS! There's a Cuesign camp coming up in July in Towson, Md. They aren't offered all that often so it'd be wonderful if you could go. Here's the Web site: www.cuesigncamp.com. Good luck! Janet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 16, 2006 Report Share Posted June 16, 2006 Thanks for posting about the camp! We live in Towson and hadn't heard about it. We cue with so he and I may just volunteer. He doesn't cue or sign, but I do both satisfactorily though I'm kind of spoiled since he's mainly oral and I only cue in noisy environments and keep throwing in cues when I sign. If anyone is going, even if we can't go, I'd love to drop by and meet people on the list as we're only about 3 miles away. Actually my daughter transferred back from Carnegie Mellon and now goes to Towson University where it is being held. It's a really nice University. If you come, you should make time to go to the Inner Harbor and visit Fort McHenry and the old ships in the harbor. There are also some great World War 2 vessels in the harbor that are really fun to tour....especially for guys...or females who like guy's stuff. -------------- Original message -------------- Hi , Yes, we use both! We began with sign language when my daughter was diagnosed as hard of hearing at 17 mos. After taking many, many classes I realized I wasn't going to become fluent in the time she needed me to learn it. So off to Cuesign camp we went. However, it still took me almost a year to really get cueing down. I absolutely LOVE having all these tools - speech, sign, cueing - in my toolbox. There isn't a day that goes by that I don't use all three with her. Cueing is a tremendous speech therapy tool. It's really wonderful for mastering new vocabulary. Its main drawback is that more people don't use it (I think we're one of just a handful in our state). My daughter was just implanted this spring after years with a progressive loss (she's now 7). I use cued speech during auditory training with her " new " ear - when she misses a word and wants to find out what I just said, I just cue it. She's a great lipreader but lipreading just doesn't convey enough information on its own. I should mention that she does not expressively cue, probably because I'm the only one who ever cues to her. Her speech is quite good. We generally use sign more than cued speech, and speech more than sign. WHATEVER WORKS! There's a Cuesign camp coming up in July in Towson, Md. They aren't offered all that often so it'd be wonderful if you could go. Here's the Web site: www.cuesigncamp.com. Good luck! Janet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 16, 2006 Report Share Posted June 16, 2006 Thanks for posting about the camp! We live in Towson and hadn't heard about it. We cue with so he and I may just volunteer. He doesn't cue or sign, but I do both satisfactorily though I'm kind of spoiled since he's mainly oral and I only cue in noisy environments and keep throwing in cues when I sign. If anyone is going, even if we can't go, I'd love to drop by and meet people on the list as we're only about 3 miles away. Actually my daughter transferred back from Carnegie Mellon and now goes to Towson University where it is being held. It's a really nice University. If you come, you should make time to go to the Inner Harbor and visit Fort McHenry and the old ships in the harbor. There are also some great World War 2 vessels in the harbor that are really fun to tour....especially for guys...or females who like guy's stuff. -------------- Original message -------------- Hi , Yes, we use both! We began with sign language when my daughter was diagnosed as hard of hearing at 17 mos. After taking many, many classes I realized I wasn't going to become fluent in the time she needed me to learn it. So off to Cuesign camp we went. However, it still took me almost a year to really get cueing down. I absolutely LOVE having all these tools - speech, sign, cueing - in my toolbox. There isn't a day that goes by that I don't use all three with her. Cueing is a tremendous speech therapy tool. It's really wonderful for mastering new vocabulary. Its main drawback is that more people don't use it (I think we're one of just a handful in our state). My daughter was just implanted this spring after years with a progressive loss (she's now 7). I use cued speech during auditory training with her " new " ear - when she misses a word and wants to find out what I just said, I just cue it. She's a great lipreader but lipreading just doesn't convey enough information on its own. I should mention that she does not expressively cue, probably because I'm the only one who ever cues to her. Her speech is quite good. We generally use sign more than cued speech, and speech more than sign. WHATEVER WORKS! There's a Cuesign camp coming up in July in Towson, Md. They aren't offered all that often so it'd be wonderful if you could go. Here's the Web site: www.cuesigncamp.com. Good luck! Janet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 16, 2006 Report Share Posted June 16, 2006 , I don't have experience with both of these systems, but from a linguistic standpoint (my oldest daughter is a linguist), much research has shown that being exposed to more than one language, and ASL is as much a language as spoken American, will be most beneficial to your daughter in the long run. Cued Speech and ASL Has anyone had experience using both Cued Speech and ASL? My 2 year old daughter was diagnosed with profound HL 2 months ago and is scheduled for simultaneous bilateral cochlear implants next month (we began the testing process in January and just recently received the diagnosis). After much research, we've decided to use Cued Speech. However, it is taking us awhile to learn it and our daughter doesn't have the patients to " listen " to us while we work on it. I figure it will be easier after the implants when she can actually hear us (I hope). In the meantime, she is picking up on sign language like crazy (we have the Singing Time DVDs which she LOVES) and I don't want to discourage her from learning by boring her or loosing interest while I try to Cue. Therefore, we are using both. I sign something to her, gain her attention and then Cue it. I've heard from a couple people that doing both is extremely hard. I'm actually finding it almost easier though because it seems she understands the concept of the sign immediately and then learns the word through Cueing over and over. Basically, for us, I'm looking at ASL in the short term and hope to use Cued Speech in the long term but am questioning if that will really work and REALLY hope I'm not totally confusing my daughter. Any input will be greatly appreciated. Thank you, __________________________________________________ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 16, 2006 Report Share Posted June 16, 2006 , I don't have experience with both of these systems, but from a linguistic standpoint (my oldest daughter is a linguist), much research has shown that being exposed to more than one language, and ASL is as much a language as spoken American, will be most beneficial to your daughter in the long run. Cued Speech and ASL Has anyone had experience using both Cued Speech and ASL? My 2 year old daughter was diagnosed with profound HL 2 months ago and is scheduled for simultaneous bilateral cochlear implants next month (we began the testing process in January and just recently received the diagnosis). After much research, we've decided to use Cued Speech. However, it is taking us awhile to learn it and our daughter doesn't have the patients to " listen " to us while we work on it. I figure it will be easier after the implants when she can actually hear us (I hope). In the meantime, she is picking up on sign language like crazy (we have the Singing Time DVDs which she LOVES) and I don't want to discourage her from learning by boring her or loosing interest while I try to Cue. Therefore, we are using both. I sign something to her, gain her attention and then Cue it. I've heard from a couple people that doing both is extremely hard. I'm actually finding it almost easier though because it seems she understands the concept of the sign immediately and then learns the word through Cueing over and over. Basically, for us, I'm looking at ASL in the short term and hope to use Cued Speech in the long term but am questioning if that will really work and REALLY hope I'm not totally confusing my daughter. Any input will be greatly appreciated. Thank you, __________________________________________________ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 16, 2006 Report Share Posted June 16, 2006 , I don't have experience with both of these systems, but from a linguistic standpoint (my oldest daughter is a linguist), much research has shown that being exposed to more than one language, and ASL is as much a language as spoken American, will be most beneficial to your daughter in the long run. Cued Speech and ASL Has anyone had experience using both Cued Speech and ASL? My 2 year old daughter was diagnosed with profound HL 2 months ago and is scheduled for simultaneous bilateral cochlear implants next month (we began the testing process in January and just recently received the diagnosis). After much research, we've decided to use Cued Speech. However, it is taking us awhile to learn it and our daughter doesn't have the patients to " listen " to us while we work on it. I figure it will be easier after the implants when she can actually hear us (I hope). In the meantime, she is picking up on sign language like crazy (we have the Singing Time DVDs which she LOVES) and I don't want to discourage her from learning by boring her or loosing interest while I try to Cue. Therefore, we are using both. I sign something to her, gain her attention and then Cue it. I've heard from a couple people that doing both is extremely hard. I'm actually finding it almost easier though because it seems she understands the concept of the sign immediately and then learns the word through Cueing over and over. Basically, for us, I'm looking at ASL in the short term and hope to use Cued Speech in the long term but am questioning if that will really work and REALLY hope I'm not totally confusing my daughter. Any input will be greatly appreciated. Thank you, __________________________________________________ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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