08-23-2007, 03:50 PM
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jillio
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Becasue CS is an adjuct to speech reading and nothing more
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. Completely inaccuarate statement.
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It is being presented in this forum as a tool for language acquisition
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, Which it does.
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and people need to know the difference
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. Which they do
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I have never said that it wasn't a useful tool, when used as appropriate. However, the implication that all one needs
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This was never implied.
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to do is to start cueing children and literacy rates will improve that is totally innaccurate
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, According to you
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and is a message that needs to be corrected
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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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