More recently the charity launched an e-learning Cued Speech use so that many more deaf children can
website (created with the help of a volunteer) and benefit from it.
have made available mini-videos of people talking Would you like to know more about Cued Speech
about how Cued Speech has helped them. Each year and the work of the Association? Their website is
they organise a popular Summer School in Exeter; crammed with information and links to videos: www.
this year they had students not only from the uK cuedspeech.co.uk
but also from Poland, France, Switzerland and the They are planning an open day in the spring. If you
Netherlands. would like to attend, call for details:
Over the years the charity has been delighted to 01803 832784
have had help from within the town; volunteers have
given free legal advice, business advice, stuffed
envelopes, and raised money. unfortunately money
is always needed to provide information and to
subsidise training for those who can’t afford it. Most
Top to bottom:
recently the ‘Nauti Buoys’ sang sea shanties in the John Burton Race and
Royal Castle Hotel in aid of the charity and John
his staff help out: Cued
Burton-Race and his staff gave their up their free time
Speech lectures: The
to host a meal for 60 people in the New Angel. John
Cued Speech ladies:
The Nauti Boys at the
said that the Cued Speech Association is a charity
Royal Castle
which is very close to his heart because he is partly
deaf, which he said was part of the reason why he
shouts a lot!
Anne now has four staff working in the Jawbones
office and an additional employee contracted out to
the Exeter Royal Academy for Deaf Education. Anne
and her colleagues are proud of the deaf children
who have been helped by Cued Speech – like 3-year
old Zed who has a reading age of a 7-year old (go to
their website, www.cuedspeech.co.uk to see a video
of parents, including Zed’s father, chatting about
cueing successes). However,
despite the big increase in the
number of people using Cued
Speech over the last ten years, it
is not widely used in the uK. The
charity has decided therefore that
they need to develop their work in
two ways; they are going to make
their training more accessible by
linking it more specifically with
their e-learning and they are going
to actively campaign to increase
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