Cued Speech
Hand shapes disambiguating lip shapes
Overview
Eight handshapes in four positions near the mouth, cues, make every speech sound visibly distinct, solving the lip reading ambiguity problem. Cued speech, developed 1966, transliterates spoken languages visually, supporting speech clarity and reading. It differs from sign language, it maps English, or French or Spanish, phoneme by phoneme. Families cue full sentences at conversational speed with practice. Evidence strongest for reading development in deaf children of hearing parents. Some children combine cueing and signing.
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