Have you had the opportunity to learn to cue deafbajagal? If I recall you are in Florida, right?? The University of South Florida has a fantastic Cued Speech program!
Our mission is to 1) expand the language and communication options for deaf and hard of hearing children and their families, and 2) facilitate deaf and hard of hearing children's development of traditionally spoken languages for the subsequent acquisition of literacy skills. Here is the link:
USF Cued Speech Initiative
USF Cued Speech Initiative
Actually LOML is referring to auditory loop. And deaf and some HH children will not have this part of the brain activated. Cued Speech does not help with this...cued speech, just like ASL, promotes the visual stimuli representation in the brain.
Cued speech is definitely visual
but the "auditory” cortex is used to process phonological the information, as with hearing individuals.
Eden, Lansdale, Cappell, Crain, Zeffiro, and LaSasso (submitted for publication) report results of a study that incorporated functional magnetic resonance (fMRI) brain imaging techniques to learn about how deaf individuals from Cued Speech backgrounds process phonological information. In that study, participants were matched on a word reading task with hearing peers and asked to perform phoneme deletion tasks while in an fMRI scanner. Results of that study revealed that 1) the phonological abilities of Cued Speech users were comparable to their hearing peers, and 2) Cued Speech users use the same parts of the brain, including the so-called“auditory” cortex, to process phonological information as their hearing peers. This study provides fMRI evidence that deaf individuals acquire phonological information comparable to hearing peers. It also suggests that deaf students process phonological information in the same parts of the brain as hearing individuals.
Research and Theory Support Cued Speech--KidsWorld Deaf Net E-Doc--Gallaudet's Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center
Deaf children who has never heard sound will never, ever understand the concept of sounds. Unless they have an amplification device such as a cochler implant or digital hearing aid.
Deaf children
do understand the concept of sound when they are cued to consistently. They need not be aided or implanted in order to understand.
Cued Speech helps teach the morphemes of the English language, which allows building blocks of language to be formated as a foundation...
Cued Speech is
all about phonemes. Phonemes are about sound. Morphemes are about grammar. Morphemes are comprised of phonemes.
Cued Speech addresses the problem inherent in oral-aural methods by fully specifying, or distinguishing between, the different phonemes of traditionally spoken languages. For example, the phonemes that are represented by the letters p, b, and m, pronounced by some as puh, buh and muh, are fully specified and easily distinguished for individuals who can hear, but are indistinguishable or insufficiently specified for those who do not. Thus people who rely on lipreading alone have no way of distinguishing words such as maybe and baby or may, pay, and bay.
Research and Theory Support Cued Speech--KidsWorld Deaf Net E-Doc--Gallaudet's Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center
It is NOT meant to teach speech. The term itself (cued speech) is misleading, which is why experts who are current in their field call it Cueing instead of Cued Speech.t can be an excellent tool for language learning, but NOT for auditory comprehension, auditory training, speech, or communication.
With all due respect to the inventor/creator of Cued Speech, Dr. Cornett named the system Cued Speech because the graphemes of language represent the sounds of speech. In Canada we use the the term Cued Speech to identify the system and Cued English or Le Langage Parle Complete - LPC, to identify the language being cued. Cued Speech is used for over 56 different dialects.
Cueing does not do artic therapy. What it does do is specify every sound in each word, the sequence and the prosody of the language expression. If a child substitutes or omits sounds while talking, his hands cue them correctly, thereby alerting the child to an error. If the child is able to make the sound correctly, he will know everywhere to insert it. A cueing child makes far fewer errors because his hands are correct.
Cued English is a communication system, not just a therapy tool. It is often used in therapy, and can be used in less than the complete form, but its big advantage is that you are not limited in what you can say. You can cue anything you can say, any rate you talk, so carry-over can happen on the playground or in a class or in the hallway.
Cued English is talking made totally visual and multi-sensory. It is unobtrusive, easy to learn and fits neatly into any communication situation. The cues on the hands guide the brain in messaging the muscles of the mouth. The visual cues are sounds, building words and sentences in the minds of children who don’t make sense of sounds. It goes much deeper than an artic cueing system does.
and I'm so excited about it!!!
