Cued Articulation - Consonants and Vowels

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A combination of hand shape, hand position and lip shape are used to represent the different sounds of words, in effect, making spoken language visible.

It is used in combination with lip-reading, helping to make sounds clear that are difficult to tell apart when lip-read. Cued Speech Discovery/CuedSpeech.com - The NCSA bookstore. Some overview information and how to incorporate Cued Speech effectively. Cued speech does indeed achieve its goal of distinguishing phonemes received by the learner, but there is some question of whether it is as helpful to expression as it is to reception. An article by Jacqueline Leybaert and Jesús Alegría discusses how children who are introduced to cued speech before the age of one are up-to-speed with their hearing peers on receptive vocabulary, though expressive vocabulary lags behind. [9] The writers suggest additional and separate training to teach oral expression if such is desired, but more importantly this reflects the nature of cued speech; to adapt children who are deaf and hard-of-hearing to a hearing world, as such discontinuities of expression and reception are not as commonly found for children with a hearing loss who are learning sign language. [9] Don’t accept pointing or gestures when a child is demanding something. Give him or her the words to express himself. If the child points to a cookie, and you know he wants the cookie, then hold the cookie and say “Do you want a cookie?” If the child indicates in the affirmative, then say, “You need to ask for it. Say ‘please may I have a cookie?’” Use and expect language and you will get language. Cue all the time and be consistent in your expectations. Nielsen, Diane Corcoran; Luetke-Stahlman, Barbara (2002). "Phonological Awareness: One Key to the Reading Proficiency of Deaf Children". American Annals of the Deaf. 147 (3): 11–19. ISSN 0002-726X. JSTOR 44390352.Has resources and information for parents, early years settings and schools to promote language and literacy development.

Go to the beach or lake. Build castles in the sand and how wet sand is easier to work with when building. Talk about how the waves come and go and wash away the castles at night. Testing, Evaluation, and Certification Unit (TECUnit) The cued language national testing body of the United States a b "All Good Things...Gallaudet closes Cued Speech Team", Cued Speech News Vol. XXVII No. 4 (Final Issue) Winter 1994: Pg 1By the end of this training you will be able to apply your understanding of howto cue to any word you wish. Not able to make speech sounds in isolation at least one year after they should have developed (see the Articulation table in the Speech Sounds Developmental Norms). Some children would benefit from help from the Speech and Language Therapy service and we would encourage you to consider a referral to our team if your child is doing any of the following: Talk about emotions and how things feel. If your child is angry or sad or happy, give him or her the words to say it. To support sound production in therapy. I always sign the sounds I am targeting as I say them. We all know visual support is really useful for all children. I also find that it is an easy way to encourage the child to look at your face without directly asking them. They have a better chance of making the sound correctly if they are looking at how you do it.