This fall the Northern Virginia Community College will offer “Cued American English: Level 1″ for the first time.  The class will begin on August 24th and will meet on Mondays and Wednesday from 5:30 to 7:20 pm. It will be worth 2 credits.  You will find the class in the course catalog under Interpreter Education.  You can see more information on the class here.  The class instructor will be Suhad Keblawi. Read Full Story

Registration for Cue Camp Virginia 2009 is now open!  Visit http://www.nvcsa.org/blog/2009/06/01/ccva-registration-is-now-open/ to learn more.  Don’t forget that there’s a new date and a new location for 2009.  Dates: 8/27/09 - 8/30/09 Location: Front Royal, Virginia Research has shown that the family provides the most influential language model in the child’s early life. Cueing in the home has been proven to provide a deaf child with the greatest understanding of language. This i... Read Full Story

“Imagine, if you will, a family that has just had a new baby. These new parents never talk to the baby and somehow manage to keep the baby from most conversation until he is about two years old. At two, they decide it is the correct time for baby to begin to talk. Each day, for fifteen minutes, they have talking lessons. They don’t speak to the baby the rest of the time. These well meaning parents spend a lot of money and research and find the perfect talking curriculum. Unfortunately, they q... Read Full Story

School helps ailing toddler May 27, 2009 12:36 am By CATHY DYSON Mountain View High School has used its connections, near and far, to pull together a fundraising event that includes autographed items from NASCAR driver Jeff Burton and tennis champion Venus Williams. The Stafford school plans a gift-card bingo at 7 p.m. Friday to raise money for Olivia Werner and her family. Included in the bingo, which costs $10 per person, are several raffle items from Burton, including gloves he wore during... Read Full Story

… or, how the past is the present and the future. Two weeks ago, on May 2, Ben turned seventeen. Born just past noon on a bright Spring Saturday, he emerged a beautiful infant, and grew into an adorable toddler with blue eyes, curly golden hair, and a sweet disposition. Although not yet manifested at birth and in these early years, Ben was born with enlarged vestibular aqueducts in his inner ears (see http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/hearing/eva.asp for specific inform... Read Full Story

Family’s blood clinic inspires public to give By DAVE DORMER, SUN MEDIA In memory of his son, Evan, Frank Pogubila is asking Calgarians to give a gift that is literally straight from the heart. Two years after Evan died at age 13 months following complications from a bone marrow transplant, Pogubila, wife Melanie and their daughter Jordan held the third annual donation clinic yesterday in Evan’s honour — the first held just before his transplant surgery — reminding Cal... Read Full Story

No, not the storied 1979 album by the glorious British punk band, The Clash. The real city — the Roman military encampment founded in 43 A.D., grown into one of the greatest capital cities the world — London, England. To Ben, Maddie, and me, it was London calling, and we spent Spring Break exploring the vibrant city on the Thames. My big Ben face to face (to face to face, if you get the joke) with Big Ben. My princess-acting delight of a daughter in the company of the Queen a... Read Full Story

David’s Dream Run Moves to Bubble Boy’s Hometown SHENANDOAH, Texas — David Vetter was twelve years old when he died in 1983 of severe combined immune deficiency (SCID). This young boy from Shenandoah, Texas was known to the world as “the Bubble Boy” and lived his entire life inside a totally germ-free environment. In honor of his memory, the annual David’s Dream Run and Walk was established to help raise money for the David Center at Texas Children’s Hospital’s Allergy and Immunol... Read Full Story

After almost two decades, gene therapies have recently started to deliver on their immense promise Mark Henderson, Science Editor Gene therapies have been a part of medicine for almost two decades. Only recently have they started to deliver on their immense promise after a string of setbacks raised doubts about the safety of manipulating human DNA, centre, to treat disease. The idea behind gene therapy is that by inserting new copies of a particular gene into human cells, it should be po... Read Full Story

The answer is YES if it’s at the Adventure Theatre in Glen Echo, Maryland.  Adventure Theatre will have a Cued Speech performance of If You Give A Mouse a Cookie, on Thursday, April 9th at 1:30pm.  Adventure Theatre is willing to do more Cued performances if they see that there is a demand.  Currently, they provide one ASL Interpreted performance per show.  I believe this will be their first Cued Speech performance.  For more information and ticket prices visit their website.  Bring you... Read Full Story