02-19-2008, 01:23 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Chicago area
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Here are a couple of articles I found on the topic.
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Is Visual Phonics Better Than Cued Speech?
Last year February I had an opportunity to attend a workshop on visual phonics presented by people from Gallaudet University. It was fascinating and the presenters, Bettie Waddy-Smith (a former colleague of mine) and Genie Chisholm, were fluent users of ASL. It was also an eye-opening experience for me as a Deaf professional.
Cued Speech is different. It is not language. It is a communication system. With Deaf adult cuers around the corner who suggested that we be open-minded, I would assume that we will need to wait for some 20-30 years till these "visual phonics" children become respectable adult professionals to tell whether it's better than cued speech. Or different from it.
Source:Ka'lalau's Korner: Is Visual Phonics Better Than Cued Speech?
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Cued Speech and Visual Phonics: How Do They Differ?
Visual Phonics and Cued Speech are different in both structure and intent. In Cued Speech, sounds are represented by a combination of designated handshapes and positions in conjunction with mouth movements. As defined by the National Cued Speech Association (2000), Cued Speech is a sound-based visual communication system. In English, it requires eight handshapes in four different locations in combination with the natural mouth movements of speech, to visually differentiate the sounds of spoken language (National Cued Speech Association).
Visual Phonics differentiates each sound by representing it with a different handshape and movement that mimic how the sound is produced. It is a tool to assist in decoding and producing the sounds in the English language. It was not designed to be used in conjunction with spoken conversation. The goal is to clarify the sound symbol relationship between spoken English and print.
Visual Phonics allows deaf students to ask questions similar to those of their hearing peers.
The deaf student asks: The hearing student asks:
What am I seeing? What am I hearing?
What is my mouth doing? What am I saying?
What is the Visual Phonics hand cue? What is the sound?
What is the letter? What is the letter?
Visual Phonics can be used with deaf students who use any communication methodology. It can be used as needed to help with pronunciation during speaking or decoding during reading. As the child internalizes the English sound/symbol code, use of Visual Phonics fades.
Source: See that Sound--KidsWorld Deaf Net E-Doc--Gallaudet's Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center
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