Thread: Is ASL Fading Away or Not?
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Old 12-23-2007, 02:53 PM   #61 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by jillio View Post
What happened to your affirmation that CS is a tool to develop literacy, and those using it as a communication system and to develop speech are presecribing off label, so to speak? We are taliking about full communciatiaon, not literacy tools, in this thread.

In addition, you claim that CS is not intended to replace ASL. You're going in circles again.
Cued English via Cued Speech is communication.

I am not the one going in circles.
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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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