Editing Cued speech (section)

==History==
Cued speech was invented in 1966 by [[R. Orin Cornett]] at [[Gallaudet University|Gallaudet College]], [[Washington, D.C.]]<ref name="All Good Things Pg 1">"All Good Things...Gallaudet closes Cued Speech Team", ''Cued Speech News'' Vol. XXVII No. 4 (Final Issue) Winter 1994: Pg 1</ref> After discovering that children with prelingual and profound [[hearing impairment]]s typically have poor [[reading comprehension]], he developed the system with the aim of improving the reading abilities of such children through better comprehension of the [[phoneme]]s of English. At the time, some were arguing that deaf children were earning these lower marks because they had to learn two different systems: American Sign Language (ASL) for person-to-person communication and English for reading and writing.<ref name="Cued Speech offers">{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/27/AR2010092705382.html |title=Cued speech offers deaf children links to spoken English |first=Leslie |last=Tamura |date=September 27, 2010 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |access-date=2022-07-01}}</ref> As many sounds look identical on the lips (such as {{IPA|/p/}} and {{IPA|/b/}}), the hand signals introduce a visual contrast in place of the formerly acoustic contrast. Cued Speech may also help people hearing incomplete or distorted sound—according to the National Cued Speech Association at cuedspeech.org, "[[cochlear implant]]s and Cued Speech are perfect partners".<ref>{{cite web |title=Cued Speech and Cochlear Implantation: A view from two decades |url=https://www.cuedspeech.co.uk/uploads/documents/Articles/view%20from%202%20decades.pdf |date=2020 |author= Jane Smith}}</ref>

Since cued speech is based on making sounds visible to the hearing impaired, it is not limited to use in English-speaking nations. Because of the demand for use in other languages/countries, by 1994 Cornett had adapted cueing to 25 other languages and dialects.<ref name="All Good Things Pg 1"/>  Originally designed to represent [[American English]], the system was adapted to [[French language|French]] in 1977. {{As of|2005}}, Cued speech has been adapted to approximately 60 languages and dialects, including six [[dialects of English]]. For [[Tone (linguistics)|tonal languages]] such as [[Thai language|Thai]], the tone is indicated by inclination and movement of the hand. For English, cued speech uses eight different hand shapes and four different positions around the mouth.{{Citation needed|date=July 2016}}