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NCSA Cueing Service Award
for Research
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| Cueing Service Award is given for research or
support above and beyond the call of duty to families and youth
that are deaf and hard of hearing and use Cued Speech. Presented
on July 22, 2006 |
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Jesus Alegria received his Ph.D.
in Psychology from the Free University of Brussels in 1975.
He now teaches and carries out research at the Laboratory of
Experimental Psychology at the same university. Based on his
research expertise in psycholinguistics and language acquisition,
he has (among other things) developed a research program focusing
on Cued Speech. In collaboration with Jacqueline Leybaert and
others, he has published many research papers on deafness and
language acquisition showing how Cued Speech enables normal
language development. |
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Dr. Daniel Koo learned to
cue when he was in fifth grade while attending public school
in Montgomery County, Maryland. Born profoundly deaf, Dr.
Koo earned a B.A. in English and Sociology from the University
of Maryland, College Park, 1994; an M.A. in linguistics from
Gallaudet University in 1997; and both an MA and a Ph.D. in
2002 and 2003, respectively, in Brain and Cognitive Sciences
from the University of Rochester. Dr. Koo’s dissertation
is on the nature of phonological representations in deaf native
cuers of English. He is a post-doctoral fellow sponsored by
the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
Recently, he won the Ruth Kirschstein National Research Service
Award for post-doctoral fellows from the National Institute
of Deafness and Communication Disorders.
Dr. Koo is interested in how the visual language-learning
experience of deaf individuals shapes their linguistic representations
and processes. Of particular interest is Cued American English
(CAE) whose phonology derives from spoken English, yet its
users communicate through the use of manual articulators and
vision. Currently, Dr. Koo is using fMRI technology to explore
the neural basis of reading in deaf individuals raised with
different communication backgrounds (i.e. American Sign Language
and CAE). Dr. Koo’s published research includes “Functional
neuroanatomy of single word reading in deaf signers,”
and “Object identification and location processing in
deaf signers: An fMRI study,” both written with J.M.
Maisog, Kelly Crain, J. Weisberg, and G. F. Eden. Carol LaSasso
as also a co-author in the first article. |
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Dr. Carol LaSasso received her
Ph.D. in education from the University of Maryland in 1968.
She joined the Gallaudet Faculty in 1969 and is currently Professor
and Ph.D. Program Director in Department of Hearing, Speech,
and Language Sciences at Gallaudet. After many years of teaching
reading methods courses to teachers of the deaf and supervising
student teachers of deaf students, Dr. LaSasso became convinced
that Cued Speech was the most effective method of language acquisition
for deaf children. In 1998, she and Melanie Metzger published
an influential article providing theoretical support for the
cueing of English versus the signing of English in the Journal
of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education (JDSDE). That article was
one of two articles recently selected by the JDSDE editors for
inclusion in a 100 year Oxford University Press commemorative
work comprised of articles from the different journals published
by Oxford University Press. Dr. LaSasso is now collaborating
with Dr. Jacqueline Leybaert and Dr. Kelly Crain on a book on
applications of Cued Speech for English language acquisition,
reading, and academic instruction to be published by Oxford
University Press. |
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Dr. Jacqueline Leybaert received
a Ph.D. in psychology from the Free University of Brussels in
1987. She now teaches and carries out research in experimental
psychology and education at the same university. Her areas of
research include cognitive development in children suffering
deafness or dysphasia; reading and writing, including dyslexia;
and the acquisition of numerical and calculating skills in normal
and handicapped children. Among her extensive publications are
many journal articles and book chapters on Cued Speech. With
Carol La Sasso and Kelly Crain, she is now writing a book entitled
Cued Speech, Language and Literacy in Deaf Children, to be published
by Oxford University Press. |
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Dr. Olivier Périer is
a physician and the father of two deaf children. He was a professor
and director of the neuro-anatomy laboratory at the Free University
of Brussels. His research focused on changes in cerebral functioning
associated with hearing deficiencies as well as on cued speech,
which he began to study in1980 in conjunction with the experimental
psychology laboratory at the Free University of Brussels. In
1968, he founded in Brussels the Ecole Intégrée,
a special school for deaf children, and the center “Comprendre
et Parler,” which currently educates 300 deaf and hearing-impaired
children. Internationally known for his work on deafness, he
was invited to join a UNESCO working group on deaf education
in developing countries. He retired in 1998 after devoting 40
years of professional activity to deaf children and their families. |
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Dr. Santiago Torres received
a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Murcia (Spain)
in 1987. As part of his doctoral dissertation Santiago Torres
adapted Cued Speech into Spanish (La Palabra Complementada,
LPC). He now teaches and carries out research in experimental
psychology at the University of Málaga, where he has
created the MOC Lab, a research center specially dedicated to
investigate about Cued Speech and its effect in several areas:
language acquisition, development of reading abilities, phonological
and working memory abilities of deaf students, etc. The MOC
lab has been crucial for the promotion of Cued Speech in Spain.
Currently, Santiago Torres works in the creation of a large
longitudinal corpus of the acquisition of Spanish by a child
exposed to LPC. A paper describing the first results will appear
in the Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education. |
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