Cued Speech: Guide

Deaf families with a deaf child

Within a sign language using Deaf family, visual access may still be possible to both the sign language of the home and the spoken language of the country.  Often hearing family members such as grandparents, will cue for their deaf grandchildren but if the deaf parents themselves were raised with CS then they may also decide to use it expressively with their own children.

As the development of Cued Speech reached its 50th Anniversary, some deaf people who grew up with CS are using in it with their own children.

"My kids are deaf," Consacro said. "They have the miracle of the technology of cochlear implants, [and] they have the language from their dad and I cueing - it just works."

This article from the Washington Post  is about a deaf couple who, having been raised with CS, now use it with their own deaf twins.

Film showing how a baby from birth responds to the cued language of her deaf parents.