Editor’s comments

It is estimated that there are 45,000 children in the UK with some degree of permanent hearing loss and over 90% of those children are born into hearing families who are of course using a spoken language in the home.  The human brain as it develops will naturally integrate what it hears of a spoken message with what it sees from the lip-patterns and other facial features, this is natural a process that reaches completion in adolescence. We offer Cued Speech as a system that works in sympathy with this facility of the brain to process speech in a multimodal way, adding the cues to a spoken message simply gives consistent visual clarification to what may or may not be accessible to deaf child through listening.