Check out the following links for additional information and helpful resources.
AG Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
AG Bell is the national organization advocating for spoken language options for the children who are deaf and hard of hearing.
All Saints Catholic Academy
We have been blessed by All Saints opening their arms and embracing Josselin, so that she can continue her education and language development in the United States. Josselin began 2nd grade in August 2005, and she will continue her studies at All Saints until June 2009 when she returns to Honduras.
Alternatives in Education for the Hearing Impaired
Josselin learned language using Cued Speech through the services of AEHI and their Montessori school AGBMS.
Children, Incorporated
We met Josselin through our sponsorship of children through Children, Incorporated. It is a wonderful child sponsorship organization that assists children in the United States and around the world.
Let Them Hear Foundation
The Let Them Hear Foundation’s Advocacy Center assists individuals with hearing loss in filing appeals against health insurance companies that have refused to cover single or bilateral cochlear implants. Participation in the program is free of charge to anyone in the United States, and available to patients regardless of what implant they want to use, whom their insurer is, or why they were turned down. Our family is using the Advocacy Center’s help to get our daughter Nicole a second implant to provide her with bilateral hearing.
National Cued Speech Association
NCSA is the national advocacy group for Cued Speech for children who are deaf and hard of hearing. Cued Speech can be a valuable tool for the children who do not substantially benefit from auditory technology or who have fallen far behind in their language development. These children may no longer be able to meet the criteria to be served by today's auditory-oral schools.
We, the Hubert family, disagree with the leadership of NCSA in their advocacy and positioning of Cued Speech as the literacy tool for all children who are deaf and hard of hearing. We believe that most of today's young technology children have the potential to develop their spoken language and literacy skills through auditory-verbal and auditory-oral approaches alone.
Sertoma Speech & Hearing Center
Josselin receives weekly speech / language services at Sertoma. In the summer of 2005 at a Schaumburg Flyers baseball game, we met catcher Tim Marks. In talking with Tim, we learned that his wife Rebecca had experience with both Cued Speech and children who are deaf. Rebecca had just recently started working at the Sertoma office that is just 20 minutes away from our home.