Cued Speech 40th Anniversary Gala, Remembering Dr. R

Remembering Dr. R. Orin Cornett
Dr. Cornett
and
Leah Henegar Lewis
July 22, 2006
Sheraton Baltimore North • Towson, MD
National Cued Speech Association
Cued Speech: Celebrating Language, Literacy and Excellence!

Remembering the Man - Celebrating the Legacy
Welcome to the National Cued Speech Association’s Gala Awards Dinner - Remembering the Man
- Celebrating the Legacy. It is a time to remember the man who brought us together - Dr. R. Orin
Cornett - to honor his memory and reflect on how the inventor of Cued Speech touched each of our
lives. It is also a night when we will honor those who worked alongside Dr. Cornett to promote his
vision – that deaf children everywhere will have the language and literacy to enjoy reading.
Dr. Cornett was a visionary, a man who saw things others could not even imagine. He saw a problem
– that deaf children did not have access to a spoken language – and he sought to right what he saw as
a grave injustice. His answer – 40 years ago – was to invent Cued Speech, a system so brilliant yet so
simple that it was ingenious. And today, 40 years after Dr. Cornett introduced the world to cueing, it
is used in almost every state and in about 15 countries.
Unlike other men of brilliance, Dr. Cornett was a human being who touched each of us in his own
way. Cued Speech did not remain in a laboratory. Instead, Dr. Cornett took the time to personally
work with each of us. He taught workshops and attended cue camps and board meetings. He had
meals in our homes and was never to busy to counsel us on the phone. Many of the parents who
contacted him were desperate, looking for an answer that would help their deaf children overcome
obstacles in their path and relieve the communication void they felt in their homes. Dr. Cornett was a
very humble person. While he was a demanding perfectionist, he was always still open to new ideas
and willing to debate issues. Forty years after he invented Cued Speech, the results are apparent in
the successes of our deaf cue adults.
During his lifetime, Dr. Cornett had many accomplishments. The legacy he left will be felt for
centuries. Cued Speech has helped deaf children break the paradigm of deaf education. The children
who have used the system are graduates of Brown, Harvard, Stanford, Gallaudet, RIT/NTID, New
York University, Syracuse, and Columbia, just to name a few. Today they are attending universities
like MIT, Wellesley, Baylor and Yale. And just a few days ago, we presented the first R. Orin Cornett
Scholarship from a specially endowed fund. So tonight, we celebrate Dr. Cornett’s legacy and honor
those who were the pioneers in getting Cued Speech off the ground, the leaders who advocated
for cueing, and those who went above and beyond the call of duty to give of themselves, either in
research or support.
Dr. R. Orin Cornett – Remembering the Man and Celebrating His Legacy.
President

July 22, 2006
Greetings and welcome to the gala hosted by NCSA this evening! This is indeed a very special
evening as we pay our tributes to Dr. Orin Cornett, the father of Cued Speech. As you all know, this is
the first time we’ve really been able to convene together as one community to honor his work and his
vision for deaf children—to achieve literacy and language skills.
As we look back to the 40 years since Cued Speech was started with Leah Henegar and her parents,
we reflect on the changes that have occurred. Through the thickness of the changes, Cued Speech has
evolved to spread its branches to not only those living in the States, but also to the rest of the world.
We are honored to have those from various countries be with us tonight as we honor Dr. Cornett. This
alone shows the true impact that this has had on the cueing community. We are also honored to have
many of the deaf native cuers be with us tonight; many of these cuers met Dr. Cornett when they
were much younger and had the honor of working with him over the years until his passing in 2002.
We are also honored to have many professionals and parents here tonight to firmly believed that deaf
children truly deserved the best-and we are also honored to have those who do not cue be with us as
they are the backbone of the deaf community and have shown support to those who cue.
As many of you know, Dr. Cornett came up with the idea for cued speech in 1966 when he was
frustrated by the low English language skills of deaf students. He felt there needed to be another way
to help deaf students acquire reading skills by enabling them to understand spoken language in a
visual manner, and came up with cued speech, a system of handshapes near the mouth that represent
spoken language. He worked at Gallaudet College when he came up with this ‘unique’ system
and from there, he was able to watch it grow and be nurtured as it spread to various parts of the
world. Tonight, we are honored to present Gallaudet University his portrait on behalf of the cueing
community.
Over the past 40 years, we have seen many changes—several of the major impacts we’ve seen has
been the development of the National Cued Speech Association, the Cued Language Network of
America, Language Matters, Inc., and the TECunit. These organizations have been the epitome of the
cueing community as they arose from the challenges to provide support and quality services to those
who are in the cueing community.
In closing, while I would like to thank many people who have helped us prepare this special event,
I would like to especially thank Leah Henegar Lewis, who has graciously agreed to come be with us
this evening, and I would also like to thank Sarina Roffe’ as she worked tirelessly to make sure this
conference and gala occurred.
On behalf of the deaf cuers, I would like to thank all of you who are here tonight who support the
cueing community!
With warm regards,
Amy Crumrine

Dr. R. Orin Cornett
Dr. R. Orin Cornett, inventor of Cued Speech, and former
vice president at Gallaudet University, died of a heart attack on
December 17 in Laurel, MD. He was 89 years old.
Born in Driftwood, Oklahoma on November 14, 1913, Dr.
Cornett’s invention of Cued Speech, a communication system for
deaf children, and his life body of work touched and improved the
lives of thousands of people in the deaf community. His noble spirit
and concern for mankind live on.
According to Dr. Charles Berlin, Clinical Professor of
Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery at Louisiana State
University Kresge Lab, Cornett “effected great changes permanently
for the good of the human condition, persevered through many
difficulties, had a good sense of reality, and a good sense of his/her
own limitations.”
Dr. Cornett earned a bachelor’s degree from Oklahoma
Baptist University in 1934, followed by an MS from the University of Oklahoma and a Ph.D. in
physics and applied mathematics from the University of Texas. He taught at his alma mater and at
Penn State and Harvard universities.
He earned a BS in Mathematics from Oklahoma Baptist University in 1934, followed by an MS
from the University of Oklahoma in 1937, and a Ph.D. in physics and applied mathematics from the
University of Texas in 1940. Between 1935 and 1945, Dr. Cornett taught physics, mathematics, and
electronics at Oklahoma
Baptist University, Penn State University, and Harvard University. From 1945 and 1958, he held
various administrative positions, including Vice President of Oklahoma Baptist University.
In 1959, Dr. Cornett became the Director of Division of Higher Education at the U.S. Office of
Education. While at the Education Department, he reviewed Gallaudet’s funding. In the process, he
was appalled to learn that most deaf persons have below grade level reading skills.
In 1965, Cornett accepted a position as vice president for Long-Range Planning at Gallaudet.
During his first year, he developed Cued Speech, with the express purpose of providing a way for
deaf and hard of hearing children to become good readers after learning that children with prelingual
and profound hearing loss typically had poor reading skills. From 1975 to 1984, he was director of
Cued Speech Programs and had adapted Cued Speech to all but four of the 56 languages and major
dialects in which it is available. When he retired in 1984, Gallaudet University awarded him
professor emeritus status.
Cornett’s mother was a school teacher and she played an important role in his philosophy of
life. His mother taught him the value of education and the importance of teaching in such a way that
a child understood it. He applied this thought process to the development of Cued Speech in 1965.
After developing Cued Speech, Dr. Cornett received grants from the Office of Education and other
agencies to do parent education, training, and research. He also became a widely sought after lecturer
on the international scene.
Cornett said “I had supposed that deaf persons were bookworms, served by reading as their
one clear window on the world. A few months of study convinced me that the underlying cause of
their reading problem was the lack of any reasonable way to learn spoken language, without which
they could not use speech for communication, become good lipreaders, or learn to read (as opposed
to being taught with the recognition of each written word). So, I really started with the conclusion
that what was needed was a convenient way to represent the spoken language accurately, through
vision, in real time. That was the problem I set out to solve, the perceived need that set my direction.”

Dr. R. Orin Cornett
(continued)
Dr. Cornett remained vice president of Long Range Planning at Gallaudet University until 1975
when he became Research Professor and Director of Cued Speech Programs, a position he held until
1984. In addition, from 1981 to 1983, he was also Chairman of the Center for Studies in Language and
Communication at Gallaudet.
Dr. Cornett’s ingenuity also was the primary factor in reducing
Gallaudet football team’s offside penalties. He suggested the
offense use a large bass drum at the line of scrimmage. Prior to
this unique idea, when the offensive players got to the line of
scrimmage, each had to count themselves--1, 2, 3...and on whatever
number the quarterback signaled in the huddle, that is when the
ball would be hiked. It was almost impossible to have all 11 players
count at the same pace. Invariably, Gallaudet would amass a
lot of offside penalties. When the bass drum was
introduced, the drummer would hit the drum with a tremendous
force until the ball was hiked. Even though Gallaudet football
players are deaf or hard of hearing, they can feel the vibration from
the bass drum and as a result, offside penalties became rare.
He wrote and published hundreds of articles and several books on mathematics, physics,
higher education, deaf education, Cued Speech and other subjects as well as serving as editor of
several publications, including the Cued Speech Resource Book for Parents, a guidebook for parents. Dr.
Cornett has adapted Cued Speech to more than 50 languages and major dialects. He has written and
published audiocassette lessons in 34 of these languages and dialects.
Among Cornett’s achievements are three honorary doctorates, the 1963 Award for
Outstanding Alumni Achievement from Oklahoma Baptist University, the Nitchie Award in Human
Communications from the New York League for the Hard of Hearing in 1988, and the Distinguished
Service Award of the National Council on Communication Disorders in 1992.
Dr. Cornett has been listed in the Marquis Who’s Who in America continuously since 1956,
and is also in Who’s Who in the World, Who Knows and What, American Men of Science, The Blue Book:
Leaders of the English-Speaking World and other biographical dictionaries.
In addition, Dr. Cornett has presented his findings at seminars and conventions around the
world A pattern of presentations repeated a dozen or more times was four-or-five day Cued Speech
camps for families and professionals, with attendance ranging from 75 to as many as 330 persons.
The week-long family Cued Speech Learning vacations at Gallaudet University, held annually for a
decade, became so large and unwieldy that they were replaced by multiple smaller family programs,
some at Gallaudet and some elsewhere. However, these workshops were a research tool for Dr.
Cornett, who learned from the feedback of parents and later modified the rules of Cued Speech.
According to Dr. Jacqueline Leybaert of the University of Brussels, Dr. Cornett’s “work
constitutes an invaluable gift not only to the deaf community, but also to the community of scientific
research. Our many studies have confirmed what Dr. Cornett expected from the CS system: the
delivery of accurate information about spoken language has a strong and positive effect on the
development of linguistic and cognitive abilities of deaf children.”
After Cornett’s retirement from Gallaudet University in 1984, he continued to work closely
with members of the international Cued Speech community from his Laurel, Maryland home.

Remembering
Dr. R. Orin Cornett
Artist: Russ Bogdan
1913-2002

NCSA Award Recipients
July 22, 2006
Cueing Leadership Award
This 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.
• Amy Crumrine • Mary Elsie Daisey • Earl Fleetwood
• Ron and Mary Ann Lachman • Dr. Melanie Metzger • Joseph Weiss
• Barbara Williams-Scott
Amy Crumrine
Mary Elsie Daisey Earl Fleetwood Dr. Melanie Metzger Joseph Weiss Barbara Williams-Scott
Cueing Service Award for Support
This award is given for support above and beyond the call of duty to families
and youth that are deaf and hard of hearing and use Cued Speech.
• Linda Balderson • Brad Buran • Osmond Crosby
• Marianne Flanagan • Elizabeth Kipila • Barbara LeBlanc
• Barbara Lee • Sandy Mosetick • Joan Rupert
• Barry Scher • Jane Smith • Iva Tullier
Barbara LeBlanc Barbara Lee Barry Scher Iva Tullier
Cueing Service Award for Research
This award is given for research above and beyond the call of duty to families
and youth that are deaf and hard of hearing and use Cued Speech.
• Dr. Jesús Alegria • Dr. Daniel Koo • Dr. Carol LaSasso
• Dr. Jacqueline Leybaert • Dr. Olivier Périer • Dr. Santiago Torres
Dr. Jesús Alegria Dr. Daniel Koo Dr. Carol LaSasso Dr. Jacqueline Leybaert
Dr. Santiago Torres

NCSA Award Recipients
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Cueing Pioneers Award
This award is given to parents of professionals who recognized the
potential of Cued Speech, began to use it in its initial stages, and stayed with it.
• Andrew Balderson • Mary Lou Barwell • Ardith and Robert Beadles
• Donna and Peter Consacro • Jay and Kaydee (deceased) Fellows • Elizabeth Hightower
• Nancy and Ken (deceased) Johndrow • Peter and Rebecca Jones • Mike and Janeane Maslin
• Kent and Peggy McGlone • Karen (deceased) and Charles McIntosh • June Dixon-Millar
• Diane and William Robers • Stan and Joan Rupert • Sheila Scher
• Eleanor and Richard Sharp • Charles and Sue Swadley • Kathy and Ron Wells
• Pat and David Wheeler
Andrew Balderson
Honorary Lifetime Memberships
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.
• Dr. Walter Beaupré (Posthumously) • Dr. Charles Berlin • June Dixon-Millar
• Joan Rupert
Dr. Charles Beaupré
Peter and Rebecca Jones
Joan and Stan Rupert Richard and Eleanor Sharp
Dr. Charles Berlin
Kent and Peggy McGlone
Charles and Sue Swadley
June Dixon-Millar Joan Rupert

Cueing Leadership Award Recipient Biographies
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.
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.

Cueing Service Award Recipient Biographies
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.
- for support above and beyond the call of duty
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.

5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. 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.
12. 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.
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.
- for research
1. 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.
2. 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 postdoctoral
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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.

Cueing Pioneers Award Recipient Biographies
Cueing Pioneers Award is given to parents or professionals who recognized the potential
of Cued Speech , began to use it in its initial stages, and stayed with it.
The first group of parents lived in Maryland, Virginia, or near Gallaudet College. Charles Swadley describes
the period this way: “It is hard to convey the untold hours spent in negotiations with Gallaudet, National
Child Research Center, Beech Tree and Fairfax County, countless meetings of the newly formed Cued Speech
group and many unsuccessful efforts to raise money for a national organization, in addition to constant,
weekly and sometimes daily contacts with Dr. Cornett. This was an adventure comparable to none other
that I have ever experienced. We went the full gamut of emotional feelings, physical exhaustion, and stress
on our families and our “normal work.” In between all of that we felt the need to be good ambassadors for
Cued Speech in any venue that arose.”
1. Andrew Balderson became active in the cueing community in 1975. Andy was active in the
formation of the Cued Speech Association, and was president in 1978 and 1979. He worked
with the Scher and McIntosh families to get funding for the Cued Speech Program at the
National Child Research Center. Next he, the Schers and the Fellows were successful in
getting the Cued Speech track established in Montgomery County Public schools under PL
94 –142. He was also one of the three major people who worked in the creation of the NCSA
(1982), and then he served on the board of that organization.
2. Mary Lou Barwell was a teacher of the deaf who had learned Cued Speech in Australia
and then worked at the Gallaudet preschool. She was ready when Dr Cornett worked to
establish a cueing class, and she became the teacher in the cueing preschool on the Gallaudet
campus in 1972. With a lot of work from Dr. Cornett, parents, and supportive professionals,
the program moved to its own space at the National Child Research Center off the campus
in 1973. Mary Lou also worked as a parent-infant teacher, going into many homes with Cued
Speech lessons, and teaching parents how to work with their deaf infants and toddlers. When
children graduated from NCRC, Mary Lou supported their parents looking for alternative
private and public schools. During the 1977-1979 school years, she met with supervisors
and taught training classed to professionals in Montgomery County to prepare for the Cued
Speech Program which began in the fall of 1979. After the NCRC program ended, she began
teaching in Montgomery County Public Schools. She currently teaches an upper elementary
self-contained Cued Speech class and provides resource services for mainstreamed students
at Flower Valley Elementary School in Rockville, Maryland. According to “her parents,” Mary
Lou had the special intuitive quality of being able to thoroughly relate to and connect with
those she taught. That quality made her exceptional. She was the professional in the trenches,
who carried them along and brought them to the point of confident independence.
3. Jay and Kaydee (deceased) Fellows started to cue in 1971 with their daughter Tiri, and Jay
was president of the Cued Speech Association twice during the next few years. Tiri was one
of the first three students to have a cueing teacher at National Child Research Center. They
worked with the Schers and Baldersons to convince Montgomery County that PL 94 -142
should be used to start a Cued Speech track in the county. Tiri then attended grade three in
Montgomery County Public Schools without a transliterator. Her good performance that year
convinced officials to hire the first transliterator, Linda Balderson. Kaydee also worked as a

transliterator in the county.
4. Karen (deceased) and Chuck McIntosh worked with Barry Scher and Andy Balderson
to get funding for the Cued Speech Program at the National Child Research Center, the
first program that used cueing teachers. After NCRC, Rob attended a Montessori School
in Crofton, MD. The school was very receptive and enthusiastic about enrolling a deaf child
that used Cued Speech. Karen worked continuously with the staff at the school. Rob’s teacher
learned to cue, eliminating the need for a transliterator. Rob attended later schools without
transliterators, but the family cued at home. His parents filed an unsuccessful suit to get a CS
transliterator when Rob attended NTID. (As of 2005, after many more similar requests, having
a CST is now possible at NTID.) Karen was a dedicated and committed parent, volunteering
wherever and whenever she was needed. She was one of the original Cue Camp Friendship
committee members, from 1992 until her death. Chuck continued to help the NCSA board for
years.
5. Sheila Scher met some cueing parents at a meeting of parents with deaf and hard of hearing
children. Their anecdotes of their children’s language levels convinced Sheila that Cued
Speech was worth investigating for her deaf two year old, Steven, whose language was
delayed. She quickly met with Dr. Cornett at Gallaudet. His vision matched hers, and Sheila
immediately began learning to cue and found a cueing tutor for Steven. In the Fall of 1976, he
entered the National Child Research Center with two other children. Returning to Steven’s
previous program after NCRC ended was not acceptable, so Sheila joined the other parents in
convincing the Montgomery County to add a Cued Speech track alongside the oral and total
communication tracks, the only program in the country to have three tracks. In those early
years Sheila was the “on-call” parent/interpreter/substitute teacher for the Cued Speech
program. It was a new situation and the parents wore many hats. She was always available
to the teachers and any staff member to help ensure that the Cued Speech track would
be successful and a continuing part of deaf education. Sheila served as the Cued Speech
Association president in 1981, was one of the founding members of the Maryland Cued
Speech Association, and was an important part of the Cue Camp Friendship team from 1992
to 1999.
6. Charles and Sue Swadley both signed the incorporation papers of the first parents’
organization, Concerned Individuals for the Educational Promotion of Cued Speech (CIEPCS),
in 1973, and Charles was the first president. That year their son Paul, with Tommy Wells and
Tiri Scott, was in the first class with cueing teachers, Mary Lou Barwell and Terry Vanden
Bosch, at the National Child Research Center. Next they joined the other parents in convincing
the Montgomery County to add a Cued Speech track alongside the oral and sign language
tracks, the only program in the country to have three tracks. In 1977 all three students were
mainstreamed into their local county schools, Paul going to Beech Tree Elementary School,
Fairfax County, where teacher Rosemary Davis volunteered for the new program. She visited
Swadleys in August and quickly learned to cue. That new school program was in Parade
Magazine and on ABC News the next year. After two successful years, the Swadley family
moved away and started the whole process over again.
7. Kathy and Ron Wells discovered Tommy was deaf when he was 10 months old, in 1971,
and learned about Cued Speech through talking with parents and teachers at the Gallaudet
Preschool Program. Mary Lou Barwell worked at the Gallaudet preschool, and taught the first
class using Cued Speech. Terry Vanden Bosch, another cueing teacher of the deaf, along with
Mary Lou Barwell, and other regular teachers who learned to cue, taught Tommy, Tiri

Scott and Paul Swadley at the National Child Research Center the next fall. Tommy learned
language by leaps and bounds, and the family was hooked on cueing. They were able to
communicate easily and accurately, as the four Wells children played and grew up as native
English language users. Kathy and Ron were involved from the beginning in the first Cued
Speech Association, with Kathy serving as president in 1980.
Cueing Pioneers
The second group “did it alone in the areas where they lived.”
“We became discouraged, but never with Cued speech.”
Parents who do it alone are “strong, self motivated and proud,” said William Robers. “There is a special
bond between them.” Dr. Cornett added, “…hence the observation by many educators that Cued Speech
is a method for the elite.”
1. Ardith and Robert Beadles were in the early cueing group. They began cueing to daughter
Elena (born in 1967) in 1970 by using audio tapes provided by Dr. Cornett. After learning
to cue, they worked with their daughter at home to increase her language level before she
entered kindergarten at age six at Durham Academy in Durham, NC, until she graduated high
school. Elena only received Cued Speech at home. Robert was instrumental in obtaining grant
funding for the automatic cuer project. He was Principal Investigator and Dr. Cornett was Project
Manager throughout their research with the automatic cuer.
2. Donna and Peter Consacro read about Cued Speech in the 1978 Parade Magazine article and
attended the first cueing workshop. After a year cueing and signing, they went against the
advice of area professionals and put Grace into an integrated setting without a transliterator
but with consistent cueing at home. In a year, with a Family Cueing Vacation and some
videotaped cued stories for practice, reading made sense to Grace, and books became her
teachers. Grace was the only deaf child in her school and was in fifth grade before she had her
first transliterator.
3. June Dixon-Millar brought Cued Speech to the United Kingdom in 1970. She is the founder
and first Director of the Cued Speech Association UK, formerly The National Centre for Cued
Speech, founded in 1975. 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
charities connected with deafness and communication, advised the UK Government on Cued
Speech, which culminated in its acceptance. She has adapted Cued Speech into 12 languages.
She has published training materials 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’.
4. Elizabeth Hightower (St. Louis, MO) began cueing with Sarah in 1976 when she was 5 1/2
years old, and her parents cued all the time, though there has seldom been a transliterator in
school.
5. Nancy and Ken (deceased) Johndrow (Ellington, CT) discovered Cued Speech through an
article in Parade Magazine in 1978. At that same time Dr. Cornett was a presenter at the

Alexander Graham Bell convention nearby, and Ken and Nancy met him there. Intrigued
by what Dr Cornett claimed about Cued Speech, they brought their family to the first Cued
Speech Family Program in the summer of 1978. Within six weeks of returning home the
success shown by Scott in both his expressive and receptive language was incredible. The
decision to continue to cue was made. Scott, with a Cued Speech interpreter/tutor, attended
kindergarten in his home school, achieving all goals set for him as well as receiving high
recommendations from his teachers. Even so, his elementary school felt that they could not
meet Scott’s needs. Nancy and Ken went through due process. The Board reconsidered, and
Scott continued his successful educational experience through the Ellington School system,
which shared the success that he had with other school systems around the country. Nancy
taught many of Scott’s teachers and interpreters to cue.
The Johndrows were part of a phenomenon that occurred over and over at family cue camps: parents
were alone in cueing where they lived, but came to camp every year to be with other parents who
believed that cueing was the best way for their child. They encouraged each other with their success
stories and supported each other during the hard times. The Maslins, Wheelers, Johndrows and
McGlones - “The Big Four”- met that first summer and returned every summer for years, learning
themselves but also helping with other families who were there. Their cueing children, Scott, Amy and
the two Jeffs, were known as “the pioneers”.
6. When Peter and Rebecca Jones discovered their daughter was deaf, they were working in
France. Rebecca heard about Cued Speech from her mother, who read about it in a pamphlet.
Rebecca visited the United States and met with Dr. Cornett. She and Peter began to cue in
English when Stasie was 2 years, 4 months old. After only six months, Stasie had over 500
spoken words and had begun to speak some French. Her parents cued in English at home
and in French outside the home. Stasie became fluent in both languages and completed
her education in French. Twice in her childhood, Stasie had a few months in a cued English
educational environment, but her family did not move back to the U.S. until she was at
Wellesley College. Cued Speech provided Stasie with a sound language base, which allowed
her later to learn German, Spanish, and Russian. After receiving her BA, she got two Master’s
degrees and is presently teaching at Kendall School and working on a PhD. The Jones family
also passed their success with Cued Speech along to the French speech therapists and parents
of deaf children. This soon led to the creation of the French Cued Speech Association, the
Association Langage Parlé Completé.
7. Mike and Janeane Maslin (New Jersey) read about Cued Speech in the 1978 Parade Magazine
article and attended Gallaudet for a class with Mary Elsie Daisey and Betsy Kipila as
instructors. Jeff was six and in pre-school. After one bad experience, Mike and Janeane went
to their second IEP meeting at school with a copy of the law and a plan of action. The school
system was cooperative when the Maslins stated that mainstreaming would be the least
restrictive environment. At home, Janeane cued and Mike signed for a year, and then they
began to cue exclusively. Janeane was Jeff’s transliterator until a trained transliterator was
provided. The whole family went to the first Family Cued Speech Program at Gallaudet the
summer of 1978 and for many more years.
8. Kent and Peggy McGlone (Fredericksburg. VA) read about Cued Speech in that Spring 1978
Parade Magazine article when Amy was 22 months old. After being in an oral/aural program
and then Sign Language, using their own language made sense to them. The Monday after
they read the article, Peggy called the Cued Speech Office at Gallaudet and talked to Dr.
Cornett for 1 ½ hours, arranging to learn Cued Speech there two weeks later. After that 3 day

class they felt free to say anything to Amy, slowly, of course. She responded quickly to cueing,
and they were thrilled when their other 5 children learned to cue and within days were much
better and faster than they were. That summer of 1978 they attended the Family Cued Speech
Program with the Maslins, and met Wheelers and Johndrows: The Big Four.
A pre-school teacher learned to cue to work with Amy. The parents of the other hearingimpaired
children in her class were insistent that Amy must be able to hear. Eventually, they
all changed their children to C.S Signing teachers in the school kept telling parents of the
other children that C.S. would not work if a child had no hearing. Amy was mainstreamed in
the public school system from the second grade aided by a C.S. transliterator. Many times it
was a lonely struggle to fight for what they believed to be best for their daughter. “But we are
glad she’s always been a part of our family, knowing inside jokes and family secrets. Best of
all, we talk with her, and she is with us in good times and in bad times.”
9. Diane and William Robers heard about Cued Speech when Gina was 2 years old. They
attended a two-day workshop presented by Dr. Cornett near them in February of 1979. They
saw immediate results even with their limited cueing abilities. Before long, Gina’s word
comprehension was growing so quickly that the Robers realized they had to become better
trained just to keep up with her progress. They went to a week long Family Cued Speech
Workshop at Gallaudet College in 1979. Soon the family and their baby sitter were able to
cue Happy Birthday to three-year-old Gina. With her expanding understanding, Gina had
lost almost all of that frustration that is so typical from a lack of communication. Cueing was
not allowed in her school for deaf children, so Gina was home schooled for pre-school. In
elementary school, Gina was mainstreamed and had a transliterator in high school. The family
always cued, giving Gina the rich language that families build together.
10. Stan Rupert attended the first Cued Speech workshop at Gallaudet College July 12-17, 1967
with a group of nine other administrators or classroom supervisors to learn Cued Speech.
These ten people learned the system and its purpose in one week. The second workshop, July
19 -24, included 100 people from the United States who broke into groups of ten and were
instructed by the first group. Because of a last minute cancellation at the second workshop,
Joan was able to attend. The Idaho State School for the Deaf was interested in this new visual
aid to language, so Stan gave cueing workshops for the staff. The preschool/elementary
department decided to employ Cued Speech on a trial basis, incorporating it into an already
oral department for two years. Because of the 1969 “wave” of total communication, the
administration decided to disband Cued Speech and adopt a signed English system. The
Ruperts were offered jobs in California at the Solano County program for deaf and hard of
hearing students because they were using Cued Speech, and it was offered as a communication
option for families for 10 years. Joan opened the West Coast Cued Speech Resource Center
in 1983. Stan and Joan continue to teach Cued Speech, present at professional meetings and
support cueing families in the Western region.
11. Eleanor and Richard Sharp’s son David was eight and not doing well in language when they
read about Cued Speech in their local Philadelphia paper in 1978, and decided to attend the
Gallaudet workshop. There they met cueing children the same age as David who blew them
away with their ability to read. Eleanor and Richard knew then that they had to learn this
method. They arranged for Mary Lou Barwell to come to their home and help them implement
the Tate curriculum (from Australia). They shared their exciting information about Cued
Speech with other families and together created a cueing program for their children, with Pam
Planker as teacher. But when the school district continually resisted providing the

services requested, the Sharps decided to move to St. Amant, LA, where there was a cueing
program. After a year of concentrated language learning, they moved back, closer to home,
and Eleanor became David’s full-time transliterator in school. Even though a late starter, David
did well with all the cueing support from his family.
12. When Pat and David Wheeler’s son Jeff, was born in 1966, there didn’t seem to be a lot of
options for a family determined to treat their son as normally as possible. Pam Beck was an
early elementary school teacher who suggested Cued Speech to them. They were a bit resistant
but decided to give it a try. The whole family attended the 1978 summer Family Cued Speech
Program at Gallaudet College. Jeff’s sister, Kristan, needed to know there were other little
girls with deaf siblings. From that point on cueing was a natural part of the Wheelers’ lives. In
junior and senior high, other families and the educators resisted ”that thing you do on your
hands”, but Jeff succeeded in spite of them. He was cited at his graduation (with Kristin as
transliterator) as a lesson in overcoming obstacles. When he graduated from NTID and then
RIT his advisor told Wheelers that Jeff was the most “normal” deaf kid he had ever met. Cued
Speech made that possible. It was from the small, widely spread group of cuers in Connecticut
and the families at the Summer Family Cued Speech Program that Pat and David drew the
support and strength they needed to succeed through these years.

Honorary Lifetime Memberships Recipient Biographies
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.
1. 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.
2. 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 worldrenowned
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.
3. 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’.
4. 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.

Congratulations to all of the Award Recipients and to the
NCSA on the 40th Congratulations to all of the Award Recipients and to the
NCSA on the 40 Anniversary of Cueing.
th Congratulations to all of the Award Recipients and to the
NCSA on the 40 Anniversary of Cueing.
th Anniversary of Cueing.
English Department
Commencement Ceremony
June 11, 2005
Congratulations to our son, Benjamin, on joining the NCSA
Board Board of of Directors. Directors. We are very proud of you.
We give our deep thanks and gratitude to NCSA NCSA, , Dr.
Dr.
Cornett and Ann Bleuer for their part in the lives and
education of Benjamin and our family.
Ron and Mary Ann Lachman

Thank you to
Dr. Orin R. Cornett
for inventing Cued Speech 40 years ago and for
having the vision to improve the lives of deaf people.
Cued Speech has changed our lives for the better.
Congratulations
to all the Honorees
and the
National Cued Speech Association
for their contributions and accomplishments!
Sarina, David, Simon, Nicole, Harriet and Abraham Roffé

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WITH ADMIRATION AND RESPECT FOR
ALL DADS
WHO MADE THE EFFORT
TO LEARN AND USE CUED SPEECH
IN MEMORY OF
NORRIS MAJORS
CUEING DAD OF EXCELLENCE
AND
IN HONOR OF
RANDY TULLIER LAWRENCE OLIVIER
RICHARD CHERRY ALEX CRAPPELL
RICH SHARP JOE DYER
BUTCH BRANSCOME FRED NELSON
PHIL PAYONK OZ CROSBY
DANNY ROSE GEORGE LUKE
HARLAN BRITT MARSHALL DIETZ
DAN GILDEA MARK FASOLD
BOB GONSOULIN RODDY MCKENDREE
DOUG SCHULER GREGORY HUBERT
MIKE GOODMAN JOHN VEAZEY
IAN CLEMENTS
It has been my pleasure to know each of you.
You have enriched my life and the lives of your children.
Barbara Lee

Congratulations,
Marianne Flanagan!
Well Deserved Recognition
For
All Your Years of
Promoting Cued Speech
Tom

Congratulates
NCSA
and the entire cueing community
on 40 years of
purpose,
perseverance,
and passion
in service to Dr. Cornett’s vision
Thank you, NCSA,
for giving our Patrick
the opportunity to reach
his full potential.
We are forever grateful!
Maria & Daniel Gildea
“My best thanks to Rebecca Jones
because due to her, I have discovered
Cued Speech when I helped Stasie
in Aix-en-Provence. It’s a fantastic
help for deaf children’s language
development. Due to her help, I have
transmitted Cued Speech in France,
then across Europe (Belgium, Switzerland...)
and many deaf children
continue to be helped by cued speech
and continue to follow normal studies
with hearing children. Again, my best
thanks to Rebecca and Peter.
~Marie-Anne Personnic,
Aix-en-Provence, France

Congratulations
Dr. Berlin, on receiving the
lifetime membership that
honors your work and
support of Cued Speech.
Well deserved.
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July 1990: R. Orin Cornett with Brother
McGrath at NCSA’s second conference
June-July 1990: R. Orin Cornett and
Mary Elsie Daisey at Cue Camp Friendship
November 1990: San Francisco, California
L to R - Pamela Beck, Mary Elsie Daisey, Joan Rupert, Connie Rubsaman, and Carol Aguirre
November 1990: San Francisco, California
Selma Taradash and daughter Nea
August 1986
Barbara Williams-Scott, Joan and Bob Gonsoulin
November 1993
Ron Lachman and Ben
August 1986: Dr. Cornett and Mary Elsie Daisey
at NCSA Annual Meeting, Gallaudet
August 1986: L to R - Pamela Beck, Mary Elsie Daisey, James Latt,
Cathy Quenin and Nancy Tepper at NCSA Annual Meeting
November 1993
Leah Lewish, Susanna McKendree and Amy McGlone

Top: Mary Elsie Daisey, Mike Maslin, Marshall Dietz, Carolyn Jones, Scott Owens
Front: Betsy Kipila, Pam Beck, Deirdre Clements
February 1995
Barbara Caldwell, Mary Elsie Daisey and Joan Rupert
August 1986
Bob Gonsoulin, Barbara Lee, Dr. Cornett and Nedra Sneed at NCSA Annual Meeting
November 1993: Dr. Edward C. Merrill, President of Gallaudet, with his daughter
and Barbara Caldwell at Dr. Cornett’s 80th birthday
Leah Lewis with her two children
November 1993
Bob and Stan Cornett, with their families at Dr. Cornett’s 80th Birthday
April 1989: Roddy McKendree cueing
to Will at Camp Cheerio
1995
Johndrow Family at Cued Speech Center Annual Meeting

February 1995: Cuepid Ball
Steven Scher, Kim Smith, Amy (Hurowitz) Crumrine, Rob McIntosh and Daniel Koo
August 1985
James Latt and Dr. Walter Beaupré and Nancy Trooper
October 1981
Dr. Cornett and June Dixon at Gallaudet College
Cued Speech Choir
June Dixon-Millar instructed the deaf members of the choir
May 1992: Jay Hair, Catherine Hair and Dr. Cornett.
Dr. Cornett is given an award for inventing Cued Speech.
Cathy Quenin
1995
Maslin Family at Cued Speech Center Annual Meeting
1991
Dr. Cornett with group of kids
April 1975: June Dixon leaving for
her grand Tour of Cued Speech

1999
Dr. Cornett’s 85th Birthday Group Photo
July 1989
Randy & Iva Tullier, Laura Cherry, Dr. Cornett at Gallaudet
Joan Rupert and Dr. Cornett at 1st NCSA Conference
July 1990
Margie Sokolnicki, Dr. Cornett and Paul Swadley
2002
Jennie Dietz and Dr. Cornett
1991
Ann Bleuer serenades ROC as Amy Crumrine and Tara Owens look on
June 1992: San Diego, CA; 25th Anniversary of Cued Speech
Dr. Cornett & his Cue Kids
October 1998
Andy Balderson and Orin Cornett
Andrew Jefferson, Cued Speech Center in the UK
and Dr. Cornett
June 1992: San Diego, CA
25th Anniversary of Cued Speech

March 1990
Cued Speech Choir
Baltimore Meeting
Joan Rupert, Dr. Cornett, Stan Rupert
June 1982: Toronto, Canada
A.G. Bell
June 1992: San Diego, CA; 25th Anniversary of Cued Speech
Dr. Cornett & Barbara Caldwell
2003: Camp Cue Orleans
Bulletin Board in honor of Dr. Cornett
August 1997: Raleigh, NC
Barbara Lee & Orin Cornett
June-July 1997: Westminister, MD
Cue Camp Friendship Dr. Cornett & Tate Tullier
June 2001: Camp Cue Orleans
Dr. Charles Berlin, Dr. Cornett, Dr. Bronya Keats
Dr. Cornett with Barbara LeBlanc
Happy 85th Birthday Dr. Cornett!
Dr. Cornett & Joan Rupert

June 2001: Camp Cue Orleans
Randy & Iva Tullier, Dr. Cornett, Tate Tullier
June 2001
Camp Cue Orleans
June 2001: Camp Cue Orleans
Iva Tullier (Camp Director) & Dr. Cornett
June 2001: Camp Cue Orleans
Dr. Cornett in Class
Dr. Cornett at San Diego Conference
with NCSA
Dr. Cornett & Mary Elsie Daisey
Carol Aguirre of Fresno and Dr. Cornett
June 2001
Camp Cue Orleans
New Orleans
Dr. Cornett
Display of Dr. Cornett

November 1998: Maryland Cued Speech Association party for Dr. Cornett
August 1982
Family Cued Speech Workshop at Gallaudet
June-July 1997
Cue Camp Friendship
June-July 1997: Westminister, MD; Cue Camp Friendship
Laurence Olivier, Dr. Cornett, Karen Olivier
June 2001: Camp Cue Orleans
Dr. Cornett & Tate Tullier
June-July 1997: Westminister, MD; Cue Camp Friendship
Mary Elsie Daisey, Dr. Cornett, Joan Rupert
July 1989
Alisa Fleetwood & Dr. Cornett at Gallaudet
June 1993: Cue Camp Friendship
Kimberly Malamphy, Dr. Cornett, Kimberly Deal
October 1998: Gaithersburg, Maryland
Luncheon with Dr. Cornett

June 1992: 25th Anniversary of Cued Speech
Dr. Cornett & Kay Ford, Barbara Lee
Fall 2000: Silver Spring, Maryland
Dr. Cornett addresses the fall kick-off meeting of the MD Cued Speech Association
June 1983: A.G. Bell in Toronto, Canada
Dr. Cornett, Barbara LeBlanc, Gaye Nichols, Barbara Lee
July 1989: Gallaudet
Iva Tullier, Lorene Cornett, Dr. Cornett, Randy Tullier
June 2001
Camp Cue Orleans
June 1992: San Diego, California
25th Anniversary of Cued Speech
Dr. Cornett with Susan Cofer August 1984: Gallaudet
Dave Wheeler, Dr. Cornett, Mike Maslin

Sarina Roffé, Dr. Cornett, Simon Roffé
July 1989: Gallaudet
Dr. Cornett & Tate Tullier
July 1989: Gallaudet
Randy Tullier & Dr. Cornett
Summer 1975: Tiffany Balderson with
Janet Weaver, NCRC Director and Dr. Cornett
AGBAD Convention; Philadelphia, PA
Dr. Cornett & Tiffany Balderson
July 1989: Gallaudet
Della, Mrs. Cornett, Dr. Cornett, Bonnie Simpson, Jeannine Brow, Beverly Pugh
Dr. R. Orin Cornett & Ann Bleur
August 1984: Gallaudet
Dr. Cornett & Dr. Walter Beaupré
June-July 1997: Westminister, Maryland
Cue Camp Friendship
Cue Camp
Joan Rupert & Dr. Cornett

Mary Elsie Daisey, Barbara Caldwell,
Barbara LeBlanc
Dr. Cornett, Betsy Kipila, Sheila Scher, Cathy Quenin and Joan Rupert
Dr. Cornett with a group of kids
Allison Brattner, Dr. Ornett, Linda Brattner
Steven Scher, Grace Consacro, Dr. Orin Cornett
Dr. Cornett in class with children
Dr. Cornett and Iva Tullier
Dr. Cornett with children
Dr. Cornett with group of kids

National Cued Speech Association
Board of Directors
Congratulates
all of the Honorees
and thanks
Dr. R. Orin Cornett
for his vision and commitment
to improving literacy among
deaf children.

We are always growing and committed to:
We are always growing and committed to:
• serving the Cued Speech community with excellent,
prompt service
• expanding the resources available for the use and
enjoyment of communication and learning through
Cued Speech
• enabling individuals with hearing, language and speech
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experiences with
family, friends and colleagues.
To Chuck Berlin
Thank you for pointing us in
all of the right directions.
All our best.
Max Tucker and Family
A toast to the past
and
a toast to the future!
• serving the Cued Speech • expanding the resources • enabling individuals with
community with excellent, available for the use and hearing, language and speech
prompt service enjoyment of communication needs to have complete
and learning through Cued Speech communication experiences
with family, friends, and
colleagues.
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CONGRATULATIONS
and BESTWISHES
to the
National Cued Speech Association
from
The Cornett Family
We thank you for honoring our father
on this 40 th Anniversary of
the invention of Cued Speech

IN HONOR OF JOAN RUPERT
“Congratulations and thanks for all your hard work
and dedication to cueing!” — Lori Hicks
“You are amazing! Over the last eight years, you’ve
been there for Aaron and our family on too many
occasions to count. For our first lesson, you drove over
two hours to get to our house because you wanted to
make sure we understood what an amazing tool Cued
Speech is. You wouldn’t take the chance of us losing
interest. Since then, you’ve continued to support
us, with testing, IEP meetings and encouragement.
You’ve applauded our progress and given us hope
when we were discouraged. Thank you! “ — Kim,
Jim, Aaron and Spencer Nusbaum
“The Cases” were grateful students. We learned to cue
from Joan years ago, and I remember her and all her
help well. Thank you, Joan.” — Kit Case
“You were always there with so much help from your
experience and your creative ideas. Your positive
attitude helped keep me going. Thanks, Joan! —
Marianne Flanagan
“Joan, you have been the backbone of the NCSA for
more than 20 years. We are all grateful for your evergracious
leadership and service.” — Cathy Quenin
“Joan, I admire your years of committed service.”
— Deanna Jordan
“You have served on the board for over two decades,
faithfully, honestly, always supportive, always seeking
the win-win situation that would move forward Cued
Speech in a peaceful and positive manner. You are a
model for the future!” — Pam Beck
“Joan is a person who will support and help others.
She does not do it for herself but she truly reaches out
to lift others up. When I struggled with the skills of
learning to cue, she encouraged and supported me
no matter how poorly I did the job. Because I had no
one to practice with, I did not keep up the skills I had
learned but she continued to send me help and support.
She always seemed to believe in me. I continue to
use Cued Speech in isolated situations and have found
it to be extremely beneficial to understand and gain
knowledge about this wonderful way to communicate.
I want to say a very special thank you to Joan for her
belief, support and encouragement. All of which has
meant a great deal to me.” — Audrey Mulvihill
“Board Member Emeritus: with California dreamin’
and dedication, you made harmony happen every time
we met.” — Barbara Caldwell
“Joan, we miss your spirit, your wisdom and your
presence on the board already. You are a model of
service for all of us. “ — Sarina Roffé
“Mom, you are the most gifted and dedicated teacher I
know! Love you!” — Jan DeLay

A special thanks
go to the following people:
“In Honor of the Lachman Family”
~Ann Bleuer
Elaine Engel
The Fasold Family
Norma Guzman
Marie-Anne Personnic in honor of Rebecca Jones
Fred and Janet Nelson
Jane Smith
Thank you for all your contributions!

Many Thanks
to our Volunteers!
Bridgette Burt
Kara Dowling
Lauren Hrncireck
Lois Hurowitz
Virginia Johnson
Jeff Majors
Jarom Matheson
Andrew Payonk
Julie Reese
Holly Riegel
Niki Roffé
Simon Roffé
Amy Rye
Steve Scher
Theresa Schimizzi
Megan Tobin

Many Thanks
Jennifer Bien, Cued Speech Transliterator
Brent Burrow, Cued Speech Transliterator
Jane Dolan, Cued Speech Transliterator
Suzanne Flint, Cued Speech Transliterator
Betsy Kipila, Cued Speech Transliterator
Angela Laptewicz, Cued Speech Transliterator
Deborah Leisey, Cued Speech Transliterator
Juli McKendree, Cued Speech Transliterator
Kathi Thompson, Cued Speech Transliterator
Sara Watt, CART Typist
Birnbaum Interpreting Services of Silver Spring, Maryland
provided the Sign Language Interpreters

Many Thanks to the
Dinner Committee:
Sarina Roffé, NCSA President
Amy Crumrine, Conference Chair
Marianne Flanagan, Award Committee Chair
The Dershowitz Group
Natasha Nadel & Toby Dershowitz, Event Planners
Mary-Beth Robie, Journal Chair

NCSA Boards of Directors
2002 to 2008; two terms
Sarina Roffé, President
Anne Banger Betsy Kipila
Sam Capiello Ben Lachman
Joan Christenson Tammy Lamb
Susan Cofer Barbara LeBlanc
Amy Crumrine Barbara Lee
Tom Dean Josh Libby
Jan DeLay Carolyn Ostrander
Marshall Dietz Isabelle Payonk
Nicole Dobson Darla Rance
Sarah Druley Amy Ruberl
Polly Earl Joan Rupert
Tori Erickson Meg Smither
Shane Feldman Paul Swadley
Mariane Flanagan Tony Wright
Alice Himel Lawrence Zoochi
Deanna Jordan
Note: Some members may have served partial terms and/or shared positions
1999 to 2002
Paul Swadley, President
Linda Balderson Barbara LeBlanc
Donna Consacro Carolyn Ostrander
Jan Marie DeLay Cathy Quenin
Polly Earl Sarina Roffé
Tori Erickson Joan Rupert
Marianne Flanagan Amy Schmidt
Deanna Jordan Tony Wright
Suzanne Laptewicz
Note: Some members may have served partial terms and/or shared positions
1996 to 1999
Cathy Quenin, President
Linda Balderson Daniel Koo
Suzie Bell Mary Ann Kraus
Carol Boggs Barbara LeBlanc
Shellie Burrow Sandy Mosetick
Barbara Caldwell Carolyn Ostrander
Deirdre Clements Tim Parker
Debbi Crosby Sarina Roffé
Polly Earl Simon Roffé
Marianne Flanagan Joan Rupert

NCSA Boards of Directors (continued)
1996 to 1999 (cont.)
Amy Hurowitz Paul Swadley
Jane Knight Cindie Walker
Note: Some members may have served partial terms and/or shared positions
1993 to 1996
Barbara Caldwell, President
Linda Balderson Daniel Koo
Pam Beck Mary Ann Kraus
Suzie Bell Barbara LeBlanc
Joan Booth Barbara Lee
Osmond Crosby Carol Mauro
Marshall Dietz Chuck McIntosh
Polly Earl Sandy Mosetick
Marianne Flanagan Tim Parker
Earl Fleetwood Cathy Quenin
Karey Guzman Connie Wilken Rubsamen
Sheila Hite Joan Rupert
Amy Hurowitz Alison Turner
Kay Jamar Gerald O’Neil Wild
Jane Knight
Note: Some members may have served partial terms and/or shared positions
1989 to 1993
Pam Beck, President
Hollis Berendt
Robin and Brent Brunetta Janet Larson
Barbara Caldwell Barbara Lee
Deirdre Clements Chuck McIntosh
Oz Crosby Kathryn Wilson-Owens
Mary Elsie Daisey Phil Payonk
Marshall Dietz Pamela Planker
Marianne Flanagan Catherine Quenin
Alisa Fleetwood Connie Wilken Rubsamen
Earl Fleetwood Joan Rupert
David Frezza Debra Kasowitz-Sachs
Maria Gildea Jan Rupert Spragg
Bob Gonsoulin Selma Taradash
Karey Guzman Alison Turner
Sheila Hite S. Tompkins Walter
Kay Jamar Gail Weddington
Mary Ann Kraus Bobbie Williams
Note: Some members may have served partial terms and/or shared positions

NCSA Boards of Directors (continued)
1984 to 1989; two terms
Mary Elsie Sbaiti Daisey, President
Andy Balderson Chris Parker
Pam Beck Phil Payonk
Jim Best Christina Barris-Perigoe
Dierdre Clements Pamela Planker
Beth Dowling Cathy Sheridan Quenin
Marianne Flanagan Margaret Rejhon
Bob Gonsoulin Joan Rupert
Jim Gregory Debra Kasowitz-Sachs
Alice Holmes Jan Rupert Spragg
Carolyn Jones Charles Swadley
Betsy Kipila Selma Taradash
Jim Latt Nancy Tepper
Fritz Leitner S. Tompkins Walter, Jr.
Mike Maslin Gail Weddington
Kathryn Wilson-Owens Joseph Weiss
Scott Owens
Note: Some members may have served partial terms and/or shared positions
1983 to 1984
Joseph Weiss, President
Andy Balderson Joan Rupert
James Gregory Mary Elsie Sbiati
Carolyn Jones Barry Scher
Betsy Kipila Charles Swadley
James Latt Nancy Tepper
Gaye Nichols
Note: Some members may have served partial terms and/or shared positions

NCSA Awards Since 1987
Honorary Lifetime Memberships
Barbara Caldwell Leah Henegar Lewis
Dr. and Mrs. Cornett Robbie McIntosh
Amy Hurowitz Crumrine Steve Scher
Mary Elsie Daisey Kim Smith
Dan Koo
Service Awards
Eileen Andrews, Chicago PS Jane Knight
Pam Beck Jeanie Krause
Ann Bleuer Ron and Mary Ann Lachman
Dustin Britt Carol Mauro
Glenys Chen Brother Gerald McGrath
Judy Curtin Marie McDonald
Mary Elsie Daisey Kent and Peggy McGlone
Sara and Craig Darrah Rod and Suzanna McKendree
Sertoma, Endwell, NY Carolyn Ostrander
Joan Fargnoli Isabel and Phil Payonk
Dr. Melanie Metzger and Earl Fleetwood Doug and Barbara Schuler
Joe Frisbee Marjie Sokolnicki
Bob and Joan Gonsoulin Beth Dowling Walker
Carolyn Jones Bobby Williams

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