Cued speech is a visual system of communication used with and among deaf or hard-of-hearing people. It is a phonemic-based system which makes traditionally spoken languages accessible by using a small ...

What is Cued Speech used for?

Cued Speech is a building block that helps children who are deaf or hard-of-hearing better understand spoken languages. When watching a person's mouth, many speech sounds look the same on the face even though the sounds heard are not the same.

What is Cued Speech in ASL?

What is Cued Speech? Basically, a person cues the sounds (phonemes) of spoken language by using eight distinct hand gestures or “hand shapes” in any one of four distinct locations near the mouth. The handshapes represent consonant phonemes and the locations near the mouth represent vowel phonemes.