Thread: Cued Speech: your opinion?
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Old 04-21-2008, 05:21 PM   #12 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Interpretrator View Post
It's another tool in the toolbox and if a kid responds well to it and acquires language naturally, then I'm all in favor of it.
Interpretrator - exactly!
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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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