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Discussion

Edits on this page often support the idea that hearing adults cue to deaf children in therapy sessions. While this is true, CS is also used among deaf people in social settings for natural interpersonal communication.

It is also worth noting that CS can be beneficial for those who have partial or diostorted hearing, but no minimum level of hearing is required a person to use cueing. The system is wholly independent as a visual mode. While a comparison can be made between visual and any auditory input, it is not required to communicate via a cued language

The literacy material

I added the section on literacy because it's a big part of the push for Cued Speech among the proponents I've heard and read. Someone else may want to tackle other sides of that issue, or other aspects of the tendency in the U.S. to cast Cued Speech as an opponent or alternative to ASL ... arguments for learning both, etc. Also, while the article mentions the used of CS with different languages, it doesn't appear to address the claimed advantages for the study of foreign languages, which is another selling point that was made to me by a CS advocate.

(If you're wondering, I'm neither for it nor against it ... I have a fondness for ASL and the associated culture, but (a) CS doesn't have to replace or supplant ASL — they co-exist and can continue to do so as they have for 40 years — and (b) I would never want to value "colorful" over "functional" if CS proved more useful to the Deaf community in the long run. I hope they won't have to be enemies in the first place.) Lawikitejana 19:12, 23 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

At least some amount of the discussion on Cued Speech and Literacy appears to be plagiarized. The text "Cued Speech was designed to help eliminate the difficulties of English language acquisition and literacy development in children who are deaf or hard-of- hearing. Results of research show that accurate and consistent cueing with a child can help in the development of language, communication and literacy but why is this so important and how does it happen? This paper addresses the issues behind literacy development, traditional deaf education, and how using Cued Speech makes such a difference in the lives of children." appears to have been copied from Cued Speech and Literacy: History, Research, and Background Information. There are no indications of quotation or citation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.64.25.59 (talk) 15:18, 6 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Location

A good idea would be to establish where in the world cued speech is used. I am a member of the Deaf community in my part of Australia, and have travelled to interstate meetings of the Deaf community, and have never heard of nor seen cued speech outside of the internet. The main alternative in Australia to Auslan that I know of is Signed Exact English. This article seems to imply that cued speech is used throughout all English-speaking countries, which is a bit misleading. 58.172.84.130 (talk) 04:17, 25 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I second that comment. Yesterday I was at a public library and started chatting with one of the volunteers. I learned that she works as a cued speech interpreter. I believe she works at local community colleges. She said cued speech was more common on the east coast of the USA and was rare here in California. I'm still wondering what groups or populations would tend to use or include cued speed over or versus ASL. I'd guess you would see it among people with profound hearing loss - the population that can hear well enough to know there are different sounds for the various vowels and consonants but has trouble discriminating between them. It seems person with worse than profound loss, or is deaf, would use ASL as it's faster and also that queued speech is based on knowing there are different sounds.

Something else this article could use is pictures that showed me the differences between the languages. The woman I talked with showed me the word "cat" in finger spelling, ASL, and then cued speech. I found the demonstration useful as it emphasized how queued speech was not "letters" nor "words." --Marc Kupper|talk 09:40, 28 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

A list of schools where cued speech is taught would also be useful as there is limited resources available on the internet for this as of right now (2 December 2014). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jakestar29 (talk • contribs) 05:36, 2 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]