She is a language vessel who often gets so absorbed in the work of listening, processing and signing at an event that, afterwards, she can’t say what was happening around her.
She is a light helping illuminate the experience of music for deaf people, like when she memorized 200 songs, including “Honky Tonk Badonkadonk,” at Country Jam in Eau Claire, Wis., this summer, or helping illuminate the experience of a silent world for hearing people, like when she requires students at Western Technical College to go around with ear plugs for six hours.
In her own spoken words, Cudo is a bridge.
“You’ve got the deaf island, and you’ve got the hearing island,” said Cudo, who lives in Onalaska with her husband and two children. “It’s like a bridge and you’re holding two islands together.” read more
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