Research and evidence into using cueing to support language acquisition, listening and lip-reading skills and age-appropriate literacy levels for deaf children.
The importance of early exposure to language and how cueing can be used to develop listening and lip-reading skills; support social/emotional development and enable full access to education.
Description of the system, its history and context as a visual support for speech perception. How to learn to cue and get in touch with relevant organisations.
Current research in the UK is being done at University College London - Can explicit training in Cued Speech improve phoneme identification? Rachel Rees, Claire Fitzpatrick, Jess Foulkes, Hilary Peterson & Caroline Newton. Please visit www.cuedspeech.co.uk to access more information on international research projects and results.
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.