2006 Leadership Award Recipients
NCSA Cueing Leadership Award
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Cueing Leadership Award is presented for excellence
and innovative leadership, promoting the use of Cued Speech
in the education of children who are deaf and hard of hearing.
Presented on July 22, 2006.
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Amy Crumrine learned
how to cue when she was about five years old while attending
the Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland where she used
Cueing transliterators through high school. She learned how
to sign as she entered middle school. After high school, she
attended Lenoir Rhyne College in North Carolina. During her
first year there, she decided she wanted to learn more about
the deaf community and its culture. She transferred to Rochester
Institute of Technology (RIT), the home of the National Technical
Institute of the Deaf, and for the next seven years she was
exposed to the cultural beauty of American Sign Language.
Amy graduated from RIT with a Bachelors degree in Social Work
in 1994 and a Masters Degree in Deaf Education in 1997. While
she was attending graduate school, she did a thesis on the impact
of deaf college cuers who attend universities with a large number
of deaf students. Upon graduation from RIT, Amy moved back to
Montgomery County, Maryland where she was a part time preschool
teacher in the cueing program in Fairfax County, Virginia. After
her first child was born, she chose to stay at home. In 2001,
she earned a Masters Degree in School Counseling from Gallaudet
University. She feels the importance of exposing all options
to parents, professionals and people in the deaf related field
about different communication options, particularly cueing and
signing. Amy is the founder and director of CueSign camp, which
has been supported by the NCSA since its inception. |
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Mary Elsie Daisey was the first
person to use Cued Speech with a deaf child. She was courageous
and proved its worth. A true leaders, Mary Elsie set up the
Cued Speech Center in North Carolina and created a new area
for cueing to move outward. Throughout her lifetime, she has
been a resource to families and professionals who chose to cue.
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Earl Fleetwood's work with cued
language transliteration began in 1980. His collaboration with
Melanie Metzger (and Barbara Williams-Scott, early on) aimed
at determining, establishing, and teaching meaningful standards.
He has co-authored text books, self-guided video and audio materials,
as well as 10 distance-education graduate and undergraduate
college courses designed to elucidate and support the application
of these standards. Mr. Fleetwood has also co-authored the CLT
Code of Conduct, the CLT National Certification Examination,
and the CLT State Level Assessment. He is a co-founder of the
TECUnit, Inc., and LMI, Inc. Currently, Mr. Fleetwood works
as a consultant for Gallaudet University's Department of Interpretation
and as a staff interpreter for Sign Language Associates, Inc. |
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Ron and Mary Ann Lachman, parents
of a deaf son, generously funded and tirelessly worked to establish
AEHI, a non-profit NCSA affiliate organization that developed
a model school program using Cued Speech at the AG Bell Montessori
School in the suburbs of Chicago, IL. The Lachmans also brought
Cued Speech to the State of Israel and worked to promote its
use among the Jewish deaf. They have been generous supporters
of many NCSA projects. |
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Dr. Melanie Metzger's work with
cued language transliteration began in 1986. Her collaboration
with Earl Fleetwood (and Barbara Williams-Scott, early on) served
to define and distinguish the role and function of cueing transliterators
in educational settings. In support of teaching this role and
function, she has co-authored various text books, self-guided
video and audio materials, as well as 10 distance-education
graduate and undergraduate college courses specific to cued
language transliteration (CLT). Dr. Metzger has also co-authored
the CLT Code of Conduct, the CLT National Certification Examination,
and the CLT State Level Assessment. She is a co-founder of the
TECUnit, Inc., and LMI, Inc. Currently, Dr. Metzger is a professor
in Gallaudet University's Master of Arts in Interpretation Program
where she teaches ASL/ENG interpreting. She has researched,
written, co-authored, and/or edited numerous books, papers,
and journal articles on cued language use and signed language
interpreting. |
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Joseph Weiss was the organizational
force in setting up the National Cued Speech Association to
create that would allow Cued Speech to spread all across the
US, and support families wherever they lived. He worked to create
the NCSA and served as its first president in 1983. |
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Barbara Williams-Scott was one
of the early Cued Speech transliterators, and teachers of the
deaf to use Cued Speech. After teaching for many years in Montgomery
County, Maryland, she began creating teaching materials and
transliterator curricula at Gallaudet College. She defined CS
transliteration, developed the first transliterator training
and testing program, and published on the topic. |
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