08-10-2007, 05:47 PM
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What is a phoneme?
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Spoken English is made up of strings of consonant and vowel pairs (CV-CV-CV) called "phonemes." A phoneme is the smallest unit of language recognized by a native speaker (example: /k/ in the word written "cat"). Meaningful groups of these units strung together (/k/+/a/+/t/) become words, phrases and sentences.
Individuals who are hearing access spoken language through sound.
Individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing can access the same information through sight when a traditionally spoken language is cued.
When a language is spoken and cued at the same time (see Cued Speech), children who are deaf or hard of hearing and hearing children access the same information at the same time, in the same language.
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What is a phoneme?
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....Cued Speech has substantial data showing that it enables deaf children to attain competency in English at the level of hearing students grade by grade. I know of no other system that enables this to happen.... As more and more young deaf persons achieve academically because of this system, deaf leaders will need to re-examine their options.
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- Dr. Edward C. Merrill, Jr. past president of Gallaudet
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