Thread: Is ASL Fading Away or Not?
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Old 12-23-2007, 06:06 PM   #83 (permalink)
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If CS was invented because of the written format of English, then that would mean we are asking deaf children to acquire language through the written form first?
shel90- Cued Speech was not invented because of the written format of Enlglish, but because Dr. Cornett was concernd by the low level of Enlgish literacy amongst some deaf children.
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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.
- Dr. Edward C. Merrill, Jr. past president of Gallaudet
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