Metaglossia: The Translation World

  On June 29-30th, cuers of all ages gathered at Nazareth College outside of Rochester, NY for the annual Cue Camp, which alternates...

The five sentences I used for my cued speech video: 1. My name is Kayla 2. I am deaf 3. I have a deaf brother 4. We both love to sign 5.

- it has 8 handshape cues to help lipreading
- it follows the word-sound; it does not follow word-spelling
- it was invented by past Gallaudet University Vice President R. Orin Cornett
- the hand shape shows consonants; the hand position shows vowels
- it is claimed that many parents can become fluent in less a year
- for some reason most Cued Speech users live on the East Coast!
- Cued Speech is found in nearly 70 national languages