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Originally Posted by owen06
My understanding from this then, is that from learning English through cueing, when a person is having a conversation with a speaking person, they are able to distinguish between b/c they have a context, and are able to know that they are talking about "Going to the beach" rather than "Going to the peach", since going to the peach doesn't make sense.
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Even if you are an extraordinary speech-reader speaking a language with highly disctinct movements for most sounds, it's a very tiring task to constantly assume in a reasonably paced conversation what the person might be saying, because there is NO language whatsoever that does not employ sounds that look identical.
Learning cued speech inevitably makes you better at speechreading itself, but speechreading IS quite ambiguous, unlike cued speech. Thus, a person who ordinarily uses cued speech might be able to give or take guess a relatively small percentage of the words being spoken by a non-cuer, it is not comparable to the comprehension that the same person would get, if say, they wrote notes.
(Note, this is from my experiences with deaf speechreaders, I cannot personally do so to save my own life
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