About Deafness Classic: Cued Speech
Friday February 9, 2007
The About Deafness Classic article on Cued Speech has been updated. Whether you're interested in learning it, already using it, interested in researching it, or interpreting (transliterating) it, there's something for you.
Comments
Cued Speech isn’t a real language, as English and ASL are.
It should be viewed as a superior tool to enable Deaf peaple in lipreading.
The positives are that Hearing families of Deaf Children have a much easier time learning Cued Speech than ASL, thus giving their Deaf child greater access to a true first languange (English) than they ever would through conventional Lipreading.
Greater language understanding gives a Deaf child an enormous advantage. (As does being raised with ASL and early exposure to Native signers.)
Being deprived of a full, complete language like English or ASL, deprives children of their OWN MINDS. It’s really a crime against humanity.