I chatted with a Deaf native cuer at the RID Conference

FYI:

I was lucky enough to run into Hilary Franklin the other day in San Francisco! I asked her what bits of advice I could take home to the CLTs-in-training in Salt Lake. She said that deaf cuers have a greater tendency to look away from the CLTs in order to glean visual information from other relevant sources in the classroom environment (instructor, PowerPoint slides, etc). It has been her experience that some CLTs feel the deaf client is looking away from them because they do not like/understand their cueing; this, of course, is not always the case. Taking in the periphery is merely a communication strategy which may be more pronounced in the cueing client.