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Amy Crumrine
Amy Crumrine was diagnosed with a profound hearing loss at the age of 18 months. The cause of the loss is unknown although it is believed that it was progressive. After her mother met Dr. Orin Cornett at a weeklong workshop at Gallaudet University in 1977, she thought she’d try Cued Speech with Amy. Read more

Hilary Franklin
Hilary Franklin is currently working as a project associate/technical writer at the American Institutes for Research. She holds a B.A. in Public Policy with a specialization in education and an M.A. in Teaching American Sign Language as a Foreign Language. She was born profoundly deaf and diagnosed as such at approximately 9 months of age. Read more

Leah Henegar Lewis
Leah Henegar Lewis, born in 1964, was the first child to use Cued Speech. Born deaf from rubella, her parents did not discover her deafness until she was two years old. After meeting with Dr. Orin Cornett, Leah and her family became the first cueng family. From the beginning, Leah made a lot of progress. She was mainstreamed in public schools and was the first deaf student to graduate from the Wake County Public Schools (North Carolina). Read more

Joshua Libby
Joshua Libby became profoundly deaf, as a result of meningitis at age 3 and a half. He was born and raised in Down East, Maine. He had already been exposed to the English language and was speaking at the time of deafness. Very shortly after losing his hearing, Josh’s mother saw Dr. R. Orin Cornett on a televised PBS program. Dr. Cornett spoke of a revolutionary new method of communication that enabled its users to see-hear spoken language in any dialect. She was quickly sold on Cued Speech because she wanted Joshua to be able to comprehend, and speak English or any language with relative ease, something she felt sign language could not afford him. Read more

Jeff Majors
Jeff Majors was born in Houston TX and contracted measles at the age of six months. His illness was believed to be the cause of his profound deafness. After his parents’ discovery of his deafness, they put him in an oral school for the deaf in Houston. Read more

Robert McIntosh
Robert McIntosh, age 29, is profoundly deaf. He either was born deaf or became deaf after a very severe illness and high fever at the age of two. His parents began cueing to him when he was three and a half. He went to the National Children’s Research Center (NCRC) for preschool and then went to the Montessori Children’s House for first to sixth grades. At Montessori, his teachers learned how to cue which while with many other responsibilities was no mean feat. Throughout Junior and Senior High School, Anne Arundel County provided the services of a Cued Speech Transliterator for Rob’s public education. Read more

Julie Reese
I was introduced to Cued Speech at the age of 18 months in 1978. My parents had first learned of Cued Speech in an article and were very fascinated with it. Where am I right now? I'm now working for a mortgage financial lending company. I graduated from the University of Texas at Dallas in 2000 with a B.A. in psychology. Read More

Simon Roffé
Simon, age 26, is a graduate of New York University with a B.S. in Finance. Simon was diagnosed with a profound hearing loss at 9 months old. He was among the inaugural Cued Speech class in 1979 in Montgomery County, MD. Simon is a past President of Our Way - NCSY, a Jewish and Deaf organization in New York City. He also is a past President of the Investment Analysis Group, a club at NYU that won Best Club of the Year and Most Improved Club of the Year during his term. Read more

Aaron Rose
Aaron was diagnosed as being profoundly deaf at 18 months old. His parents considered the possibilities of Sign Language and the School for the Deaf. Fortunately someone came along and introduced the idea of Cued Speech. The family attended Cue Camp NC at Camp Cheerio in the mountains, and it was then when Aaron made contact with people that became his best friends for life. Read more
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Amy Rye
Cued Speech, Dr. R. Orin Cornett, and my mother who chose Cued Speech over Sign Language, and Susan Cofer who introduced it to my mother - all impacted my life immensely and tremendously. Without it, I would be an absolute different person than I am today. I am so grateful and thankful for Cued Speech and Dr. Cornett who invented it; and to all those who stood by me with no limitations on me with my hearing loss and the value of my life. Read more