The report describes the National Child Research Center (NCRC) Cued Speech Program in which various approaches were used to assist 16 preschool and primary aged hearing impaired children in a mainstreamed setting. Section I considers the program in terms of background, philosophy, goals, and program formats. A second section presents a summative…

The booklet describes research on deafness undertaken at Gallaudet College. The work of the following departments are briefly summarized: the Division of Research and the Gallaudet Research Institute, the Kendall Elementary School/Model Secondary School for the Deaf, Educational Research Laboratory, the Office of Cued Speech Programs, the Mental…

Examined is the combination of methods (aural, manual, oral) used within the philosophy of total communication for the deaf. The use of Cued Speech, a tool whose purpose is to make spoken language visually clear at the levels of phonems, syllables, suprasegmentals, words, and phrases, is advocated for communication with the deaf. (BD)

The Model Secondary School for the Deaf in the nation's capital seeks to show the way for preparing deaf students to enter college. (Editor)

Language development of three prelingually deaf preschool children in a cued speech program was videotaped and analyzed by frequency of gestures, cues, and speech. Results suggest early introduction of cued speech does not materially aid spoken language development of profoundly deaf children. (MSE)

To investigate the effects of cued speech on speech reception (speechreading), cued and non-cued phrases and sentences were presented at normal and slow rates, with and without hearing aids, to eight profoundly deaf 8- to 12-year-old subjects who had been tested the previous year. (Author/LS)

Two experiments using the same Ss in one sitting tested the hypothesis that the temporal redundancy inherent in rhythmically structured sound sequences is used during listening by the perceptual mechanism. (Editor)

The study found that the extent of teacher control over conversations with deaf pupils using oral/aural only, signed English, or cued speech communication affected pupil response, including taking initiative in conversations, misunderstanding of the teacher, and length of conversational contributions. Different methods of communication by the 13…

A child with chronic otitis media with effusion solved the problem of reduced and fluctuating auditory input with phonological selection and avoidance strategies that capitalized on prosodic cues. Findings illustrate the need to consider interactions among performance, input, and linguistic constraints to explain individual variation in language…

The purpose of the project was to train parents and teachers of hearing impaired children in the use of cued speech and to provide support services to 10 schools and programs to enable them to serve as models. During 1968-69, 3537 parents and teachers attended workshops and demonstrations, and 486 parents in 41 classes received an average of 15.7…

Principles of using Cued Speech with deaf children are discussed. Review of the literature suggests that Cued Speech has been unjustly criticized. Cued speech should be seen not as a method of communication, but rather as an intervention tool with application for both aural-oral and Total Communication programs. (Author/DB)

A review of problems with using such manual communication systems as cued speech, fingerspelling, Signed or Manual English, American Sign Language, and Pidgin Sign provides a rationale for using a combination of American Sign Language and Pidgin Sign and a few markers from Signed English for a Total Communication system. (CB)

Investigation of the degree to which cue validity predicted the actual strength of grammatical cues as they are used by speakers of Hebrew revealed strong positive correlations between estimated cue validities and actual cue strengths for all but the youngest age groups of speakers. (Author/CB)