NCSA Honorary Lifetime Memberships
NCSA Honorary Lifetime Memberships
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| Honorary Lifetime Memberships are given to individuals
who have committed a minimum of 20 years of ongoing and valuable
service to the NCSA, or for important research or publication
about Cued Speech, or to individuals whose advocacy has significantly
raised the level of Cued Speech recognition and acceptance.
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Dr. Walter Beaupre (Posthumously)
developed the first Cued Speech proficiency test as a result
of his extensive use of the system to teach phonetics at the
University of Rhode Island. His book Gaining Cued Speech Proficiency
has become a classic in Cued Speech literature and established
the standard for professional cuers. |
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Dr. Charles Berlin saw the
value of Cued Speech for children with hearing loss, Auditory
Neuropathy or Auditory Disynchrony, and children who were
getting cochlear implants. He encouraged audiologists to recommend
Cued Speech to parents and to become involved in their decision
process, as he so generously did. He retired in 2002 as Professor
of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, and Physiology,
and Director of the world-renowned Kresge Hearing Research
Laboratory at LSU Medical School in New Orleans. He was also
a practicing licensed audiologist who saw patients weekly
in the audiology clinic he directed which was selected by
Family Circle magazine in 1987 as the Best Place in the United
States for Hearing Problems. There the families who have hearing
impaired children received Cued Speech on their menu of management
choices. He has been called the "Teacher's Teacher"
and succeeds in making complicated auditory concepts accessible
to parents, teachers, hearing aid specialists, as well as
his Audiology and Physician students. Dr. Berlin has been
a tireless advocate for Cued Speech before numerous professional
audiences. He has not only been a pioneer in the identification
of auditory neuropathy/disynchrony, he has also personally
provided support to parents seeking accurate diagnosis of
their children’s hearing difficulties, spending hours
on the phone with them, counseling them and directing them
to resources. He empowers parents to advocate for their children.
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June Dixon-Millar is the founder
and Director of the Cued Speech Association UK, formerly The
National Centre for Cued Speech, founded in 1975. June has used
Cued Speech since 1970. She trained at Homerton College, Cambridge
and at Manchester University Department of Education for the
Deaf. She is an international lecturer and author of numerous
articles for professional journals on deafness. She has been
a committee member of several charities connected with deafness
and communication, advised the UK Government on Cued Speech,
and adapted Cued Speech into 12 languages. She has published
training material for all ages of deaf people with different
degrees and types of hearing loss, and this year produced a
CD-ROM ‘Cued Speech Activities for Children’. |
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Joan Rupert served on the first
NCSA board with Joseph Weiss as president in 1983, and resigned
in 2005, a total of 32 years, serving as the representative
for the Western US as well as a director at large. Ms. Rupert
has taught cueing classes all over the Western US, organized
Cue Camps, opened West Coast Cued Speech Services in California,
advocated for parents and worked with California legislative
bodies to obtain support for Cued Speech or to allow for CS
use in schools. |
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