Talk:Cued speech

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Edits on this page often support the idea that hearing adults cue to deaf children in therapy sessions. While this is true, CS is also used among deaf people in social settings for natural interpersonal communication.

It is also worth noting that CS can be beneficial for those who have partial or diostorted hearing, but no minimum level of hearing is required a person to use cueing. The system is wholly independent as a visual mode. While a comparison can be made between visual and any auditory input, it is not required to communicate via a cued language

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[edit] The literacy material

I added the section on literacy because it's a big part of the push for Cued Speech among the proponents I've heard and read. Someone else may want to tackle other sides of that issue, or other aspects of the tendency in the U.S. to cast Cued Speech as an opponent or alternative to ASL ... arguments for learning both, etc. Also, while the article mentions the used of CS with different languages, it doesn't appear to address the claimed advantages for the study of foreign languages, which is another selling point that was made to me by a CS advocate.

(If you're wondering, I'm neither for it nor against it ... I have a fondness for ASL and the associated culture, but (a) CS doesn't have to replace or supplant ASL — they co-exist and can continue to do so as they have for 40 years — and (b) I would never want to value "colorful" over "functional" if CS proved more useful to the Deaf community in the long run. I hope they won't have to be enemies in the first place.) Lawikitejana 19:12, 23 August 2006 (UTC)