Visual Phonics choosen over Cued Speech for speech

[jillio]

I am curious to look at the other avenues, if you would be so kind to provide me with some research to start with I would greatly appreciate it. For literacy, if the majority of deaf students do not respond to a phonological approach to reading, what approach do they respond well to?

Actually, they respond to a whole language approach to literacy. As for specific reading skills, sight reading has been shown to be more effective.

The reason that word recognition does not necessarily lead to increased literacy, is that being able to recognize, or even pronounce phonetically, a particular word does not equate to being able to use that word in various contexts.

I have some articles on this computer and some on my jump drive. I don't links, but will give you all of the information you need to access the articles. I'll pm you with the information, since it will take me a bit to compile the references for all and could end up being lengthy.