learn cued speech

i am a speech-language pathologist and it is amazing how this can benefit both the hard of hearing as well as articulation students.

...at the LA Tech. Coll. in 1999. I didn’t take the transliteration courses. I wish I had. I need to take the Beaupre test again. I didn’t get my results from the first one.

It’s great. Exhausting but great. (It’s quite literaly a pain in the hand.)
Now, my new goal will be: “practice cued speech at least twenty minutes a day, in two sessions”, because I can code… very slowly and awkwardly.

(One hour a day? One hour and a half?)
And since it’s easy, I’m learning very fast. I master the whole code. Now I just need practice. A lot of practice. I code everything I say and everything I’m told.

I don’t think I’ll have any friend left in a few days.

One of the orthophonists at school gave me a method to learn cued speech. I began studying it last night in the subway. It was fun making stupid gestures with my hand while people gave me worried looks. It’s relatively easy to learn, and quite hard to become fluent in. But what the heck! I just have to practice to become good. And it’s so fun! A secret code!

so that my deaf pupils can understand me better when I’m speaking French to them.