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And then, so when Angus was three and a half
he had cochlear implants and had them switched on
and I just think that cueing made that whole process
so much easier for him because he already had quite a lot of English
language in his head
all he had to do was add sound to it and
you know everyone like the professionals said it's
so late and who knows if it'll work at all
he's had them in now
he's had access to sound for 10 months and
and he's doing amazing he turned around to my friends Dad the other day
and said Rog do you want some cake and
just you know said it and
obviously that's partly because he had sign language for three and a half years
he had some language
and the cueing just I think makes
all the sound so clear to him that's why his pronunciation
for ten months is pretty good and
so yeah now we're on a different path where we're using
still using voice off BSL at times
and then other times we're using spoken English with him
some of those times we would be using cueing and sometimes we're not using
cueing and
he can hear in a quiet environment quite well with the
cochlear implants.
..and so now we're in this sort of new wave
of kind of oralists
and obviously happy now Angus has been cochlear implanted
and some people say you don't need
cueing now, you know why do you need cueing, he can hear you
and that for me has been really interesting to see
how much he needs cueing and how helpful it is to him
One example was..
he has a friend at nursery called cherry
and I have a friend called
sherry and he also likes watching Tom and Jerry
and he signed Cherry
for his friends name cherry but he also signs
the sign for Cherry when he's asking for Tom and Jerry
or he's talking about my friend sherry and..
.. said because with context
if you talking about, you know, watching a programme
he gets that I'm talking about Tom and Jerry, he's not confused and thinks it's the
girl from nursery
because of the context, so he can understand what I'm saying
.. but it
..but because of him signing back and because of us cueing
I'm aware that it looks like he can hear all of that
but he knows what I'm talking about, but he can't actually differentiate all of the sounds yet so
with cueing
I'm able to say you know no no no it's not
Cherry it's Sherry or
you know it's not Cherry, it's Tom and Jerry and
that cueing is enabling him to know
that there's a difference in that sound
that he has to listen out for
'Lel talks to Joni'
mummy's just talking to the camera
so that for me is just fascinating that you know some people say oh you
don't need cueing cause he can hear you
but it's like he can understand what I'm saying but we wouldn't
actually know that he wasn't able to differentiate all of those sounds
until he started to read and write and then we would realise
oh he's writing the same letters for all of those three words which are
completely different
so we're still using cueing quite a lot
and I can still see it's massively useful