RoseRodent
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I have been looking at various communication options for a while, wondering what might best suit my needs. I have concluded that full on sign BSL is probably not for me. Why? Well, because the essence of communication is to have someone to communicate with. I don't have friends who can sign and people are not going to go out and learn, but Cued Speech is a very easy thing to learn. I was surprised looking at it that the focus is entirely on children. I can see how it helps children in education to relate to phonics, but I can also see how it might alleviate some of the frustration of the late deafened, who have a hearing community around them, who do not have BSL/ASL users and who in any case often feel a disconnect with that community as it takes so many years to master these new languages.
I might have a look at doing some small-scale research on the use of Cued Speech among late deafened and HoH adults, but wondered does anyone have any experience of cueing with/as adults? It seems like a good middle ground between trying to get everything from lipreading alone and having to learn a whole new language which you can then only use with those equally committed to learning it. By comparison you can probably persuade all but the most stick in the mud friends, family and colleagues to learn to cue.
I might have a look at doing some small-scale research on the use of Cued Speech among late deafened and HoH adults, but wondered does anyone have any experience of cueing with/as adults? It seems like a good middle ground between trying to get everything from lipreading alone and having to learn a whole new language which you can then only use with those equally committed to learning it. By comparison you can probably persuade all but the most stick in the mud friends, family and colleagues to learn to cue.