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Originally Posted by flip
From agbell.org
"The auditory/oral, Auditory-Verbal and cued speech methods all make up a larger spoken language approach to communicating. For information about educational programming for children pursuing forms of manual communication, (i.e., Bilingual-Bicultural or Total Communication), contact the National Association of the Deaf or the American Society for Deaf Children."
I am sure visual phonics can have it's place in a bi-bi program, but the way cued speech is explained by NCSA and AG Bell, it's definitely an oral tool.
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Thank you!
To even attempt to imply that it isn't is nothing sort of absurd!
And, yes, it could have a role in a bi-bi environment as a tool for teaching English as an L2 langauage. But loml pproposes its use for language acquisition. That is a very dangerous proposition where a deaf child's access to whole language is the issue.