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Originally Posted by shel90
Ok what if the child doesnt have a strong grasp of the English language? From my understanding, the child must have a strong understanding of English for CS to make sense.
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Absolutely, shel. If the child does not have a large English vocabulary, then the cuing offers only meaningless clues to phonemes. If you were to speak English, and encounter someone who, for instance, spoke Hungariean, you would be able to hear the differrent phonemes, but the sounds would be meaningless, because you are unable to grasp the concept. Likewise with a HH or deaf child that is trying to grasp conceptual meaning from English sounds that are cued. They may know that "peach" and "beach" employ different phonemes, but if they do not have the conceptual knowledge of what a peach and a beach are, the phoneme discrimination is useless.