NCSA Cueing Service Award
For support above and beyond the call of duty
NCSA Cueing Service Awards
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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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Linda Balderson,
along with her husband Andrew, was one of the first parents
in the DC area to use Cued Speech with a child who was deaf
and had other disabilities. A visionary, Ms. Balderson became
the first CS transliterator, created Cue Camp Friendship in1992,
taught Cued Speech, and created the first college level Cued
Speech course. Over the years she has served on the NCSA Board
of Directors, earned a Master’s degree in deaf education,
and become a certified Cued Speech Transliterator and Instructor
of Cued Speech. She was important in the developmental stages,
and in teaching in the CS Instructor National Certification
program. Linda is currently the co-owner of Cuemunication Resources
and Services, LLC, through which she continues developing materials,
teaching CS, and working as a transliterator. |
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Brad Buran is a native cuer
and grew up in the Montgomery County Public School system in
Maryland. He was the first cuer to graduate from the math and
science magnet program at Blair High School. From there, he
went on to the Honors Program at the University of Maryland
at College Park, where he graduated with a bachelor's degree
in Physiology and Neurobiology. He is currently at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology working toward his PhD in Speech and
Hearing Bioscience and Technology. Since his arrival at MIT,
Brad has created the Visual Language Consortium, a student organization
that focuses on teaching the Cued Speech system and educating
people about cued languages. He has also, along with transliterators,
taught his peers how to cue. In 2005, Brad organized the Cued
Speech Winter Workshop at MIT. He also hostes "Cues on
Tap," a monthly event for all cuers in the Boston area
to get together and interact. Brad has been published in the
Journal of Morphology. The title of his paper is "Structural
variation in the inner ears of four deep sea elopomorph fishes."
He is currently working on a paper about his recent neurophysiology
project examining the function of synaptic ribbons in hair cells,
and is also embarking on a new molecular biology project examining
the role of receptors in the auditory nerve. |
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Osmond Crosby served on two
NCSA boards in the early 90’s, pushing the association
into the electronic age. His vision was forward looking, working
for all deaf and hard of hearing children and their parents.
Mr. Crosby cultivates contacts in all areas of hearing loss,
parents and professionals, bringing them to understand cueing,
and passing along all he learns from them to the cueing community.
He is the 1995 recipient of Kam’s Fund award for supporting
hearing research nationally, the 2005 Utah Association for the
Deaf – President’s Award – for advocacy in
deaf education and introduction of cued speech to Utah, and
is the co-founder of Cued Language Network of America. |
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Marianne Flanagan has served
the Cued Speech community in Canada, working alone in the West
to spread its use for the past two decades. A speech language
pathologist, Ms. Flanagan has served on the board of the NCSA
since 1988 and was the editor of the “On Cue” newsletter
for ten years. She is a certified instructor, and teaches workshops
in Canada and at cue camps in the US. |
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Elizabeth Kipila was the first
secretary/treasurer of the NCSA after its incorporations in
1982. She worked with Cued Speech office at Gallaudet University
from 1975 until the closure of that unit in 2005, after which
she served as adjunct faculty in the Dept. of Hearing &
Speech teaching a graduate level Cued Speech class. Ms. Kipila
developed a variety of teaching materials and curricula, organized
and worked at the Gallaudet Cued Speech Family Programs, and
designed the first Cued Speech instructor training and testing
certification battery. Since her retirement from Gallaudet,
she continues to provide parent support, teaches cueing, serves
as a cued language transliterator, and assists with training
and testing for the NCSA's instructor certification committee.
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Barbara LeBlanc was a speech
pathologist in the Ascension Parish, Louisiana cueing program
when it began in 1979. She designed the language program, setting
up the testing and teaching guidelines, and then presented and
published on the results. Ms. LeBlanc developed a transliterator
training program, broadening its potential through creation
of a distance learning program. She has also served on three
boards. |
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Barbara Lee is an audiologist
who started the Ascension Parish, Louisiana, cueing program
in 1979. She continues to teach Cued Speech, and advocate for
language acquisition through CS use in the schools. Ms. Lee
makes frequent presentations and publishes about the impact
of CS use in the education of deaf and hard of hearing children.
She has served on three NCSA boards. |
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Sandy Mosetick, a parent active
in AEHI and on the board of AG Bell Montessori School, as well
as the NCSA, was the driving force behind the Open Doors, a
joint publication of the NCSA and Oticon, Inc. She is a tireless
and generous supporter of AEHI, and is the visionary Board Chairman
and financial backer of the new AGBell Montessori School in
Chicago. |
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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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Barry Scher began cueing in
1976 and worked with the Balderson and McIntosh families to
get funding from Gallaudet for the Cued Speech program at the
National Child Research Center, where his son Steven attended
school. Barry was instrumental in getting the Montgomery County
Public Schools to begin the first Cued Speech program in the
United States, making it a three-track program. Barry also worked
with Joseph Weiss, Andrew Balderson, and other parents to create
the NCSA in 1982. Mr. Scher has tirelessly worked to market
Cued Speech and has generously supported the NCSA. |
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Jane Smith has worked as a communication
specialist in the Cued Speech program in Montgomery County,
Maryland since the early 80s, individualizing every program
to the student’s needs, consulting with other professionals
involved with her students, and counseling parents. She is also
involved in the MD Cued Speech Association, teaches CS classes
locally and at camps, and publishes and presents about Cued
Speech use, particularly with cochlear implants. |
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Iva Tullier has been cueing
in Louisiana since 1980, both for her son Tate and as a transliterator
for other children in the schools. She is a certified CS instructor,
has taught children and adults at cue camps and the LA Technical
College, was the director of “Camp Cue Orleans”,
and has helped host numerous CS conferences and workshops in
Ascension Parish. She and husband Randy were two founders of
“Whatever It Takes”, the parent group for hearing
impaired children in her area. |
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