Cued Speech and Cued Language for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children

Gallaudet Univ., Washington, DC. Shows how effective cued speech can be in making spoken languages visible and fully accessible for a deaf child in preparation for formal reading instruction and academic achievement. Topics include cueing for natural language acquisition and cued speech/cued language on the horizon. For practitioners. Softcover. DNLM: Deafness-therapy.

Carol J. LaSasso, Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Hearing, Speech, and Language Sciences at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C. She is affiliated with the Science of Learning Center on Visual Language and Visual Literacy (VL2) at Gallaudet University and the Center for the Study of Learning at Georgetown University, which employs fMRI and behavioral methods to examine language and cognition of deaf individuals from oral, signing, and cueing backgrounds. She has served as President of the Special Interest Group in Reading and Deafness for the International Reading Association and has published extensively in the areas of phonological abilities, vocabulary, reading comprehension, and test-taking abilities of deaf children and youth. Dr. LaSasso has directed diagnostic reading clinics for more than 400 deaf and hard of hearing children and their parents from ASL, MCE signing, oral, and Cued Speech backgrounds in Washington, D.C, Connecticut, and North Carolina. Dr. LaSasso currently mentors Ph.D. students, guides dissertation research, teaches Ph.D. seminars, and directs federal personnel preparation grants from the U.S. Department of Education. Kelly Lamar Crain, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of Aural Habilitation: Deaf Education at the University of South Florida, Tampa. Dr. Crain earned a bachelor's degree in Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology from the University of Southern Mississippi, and master's and doctoral degrees in Deaf Education from Gallaudet University. He became interested in Cued Speech while studying at Gallaudet and completed his doctoral dissertation on the effects of cueing on deaf readers' phonological awareness. Dr. Crain also is a licensed and certified teacher of students who are deaf and hard of hearing, a qualified educational interpreter, and a certified Cued Speech instructor. Jacqueline Leybaert, Ph.D., is a professor of Psychology at the Universit libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium. She teaches courses on language acquisition and disorders, cognitive development, sensory deficits and neural plasticity, and dyscalculia. Her dissertation examined phonological codes used by deaf children in reading, spelling, and short-term serial memory. Since then, her research interests have focused on the effect of Cued Speech on the three Rs (reading, rhyming, remembering). More recently, she directed research related to audiovisual integration and speech perception in noise in children with cochlear implants and children with specific language impairments. She has co-edited two books in French about linguistic and cognitive development in deaf children and has written numerous articles and book chapters about these topics.