- "I would love to get some cued speech success stories, as a cued speech transliterator and having grown up with a deaf peer whom I learned to cue with at the age of three, I would love to find out how you felt C.S. worked for you :)"
—CUER4LIFE
—CUELADY
"I just wanted to pop in and inform you that i am a CS user as well. Unlike you and the others who have posted, i just recently learned CS 1 1/2 years ago. I am 20 years old and attend Roger Williams University. I used CS in the classroom and it has been great. I love it and advocate its use for any deaf child beginning the journey to language. Its simple, easy to learn and its visual. I do love ASL as well tho, but find ASL is better for me in social situations and CS better in the academic setting. Anyhow, i am from CT and attend school in RI. Where are you all from?"
—PAQARE
"I have been signing all my life. While I was in college, I learned about Cued Speech. Many students studying Deaf Education were learning Cued Speech as well. A college student/cued speech transiliterator taught me how to cue within 3 days. It is very hard for a deaf person to learn it because you need to be able to hear sounds and understand phonics. Luckily, I learned to read with phonics when I was little and had enough residual hearing to hear speech. There was a student who used Cued Speech and I wanted to be able to communicate with him. Since I was studying Deaf Education, I felt it was my responsibility to know all the methods to communicate with the deaf. After several weeks of practicing using cued speech, I was able to slowly become fluent. I even used a cued speech transiliterator for some of my college classes. I know it would have been extremely valuable to use cued speech in a foreign language. My friends signed to me but when I pronounced a word wrong, they would cue it.
To this day, I really do not use cued speech because I am not around anyone to knows it. I have a cochlear implant and able to communicate without signs or cued speech. As a teacher of the deaf, I have been signing with my students. I find sign language to be beautiful and exciting. Cued speech is a little boring for me because its the same 8 shapes and positions. I would definitely use it for learning words without signs and foreign languages. Cued speech does have lots of pros as well as cons."
—PUDDYCAT701
"I'm a Cuer from the age of 2, and I don't find it boring because it's just 8 shapes and 4 positions - Rather, I love it because it is so simple, and yet it can be so graceful and unobstructive when done properly. (speaking as someone who's been whacked upside the head a couple of times by over-enthusiastic signers... ;)) I think that all people should at least have some idea of how words sound, because it's very important to know how language is built up - if you know how a word looks, you get some idea of how it might sound from the letters in it, and it really gives the words an additional dimension. The biggest problem is that it is very rare, because you don't find many people who know about it, let alone who can Cue, and this is why so many Cuers feel isolated, because they don't know other people who Cue.
I've never had any residual hearing in my life, nor have I any idea of how words sound, other than what I've learned. And yet, with Cued Speech, I get some idea of how sounds sound.... One of the funniest things you can imagine is trying to describe the sound of a bag of wet cabbage leaves landing on the ground.... (don't ask!!) with Cues. I find it just as beautiful and exciting as sign language, more so in some ways, because it's bringing the wonderful world of language within your grasp - it's a way to understand Shakespeare and Chaucer and Wordsworth and Jane Austen, to really get your head around the wonderful use of words and language that authors and writers use, and to understand how people talk in dialect - for example, a broad Scottish accent can be Cued! But then, I have a deep love for language and whilst I see how sign language is exciting and fascinating,
