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[jillio]

Imol

Cue Speech and ASL are two separate languages; you can’t mix them together or deaf children to feel confused about Cue Speech and ASL. In addition, there is Cue Speech with voice and ASL is with sign language. I have no idea whether deaf children would be able to develop the skill to switch code between Cue Speech and ASL. I suggest that you will have to research deaf children Cue Speech and ASL.

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Helen Keller used fingerspelling, but not sign language, wanting to learn how to speak English. It was her choice.

jillo


SPE and SEE can voice at the same, I think, or I might be wrong. Remember ASL must be without voice. Of course I do support about deaf children need to have access to education, including reading and writing if they have the craving to speak English. SO, this makes ASL distinct from SEE, SPE, TC and Cue Speech with mode of communication.

PS I am not teacher.

You are absolutely correct. But Helen Keller used fingerspelling because she was blind/deaf and the words had to fingerspelled into her hand. What would normally be a visual communication had, by necessity, to be changed into a tactile communication. The signs used with ASL cannnot be converted to tactile, because the motion is an inherent part of the meaning.

ASL is distinctly different because it is a separate language from English. SEE PSE CS and TC are all systems of manually coded English.