Cued Speech

The real advantage of cued speech is that it helps people like me (hearing with no deaf or signing contacts) to make what I'm saying more accessible to hearing impaired people. I have done both Makaton and BSL courses. I use, and teach others, the few signs I know - but that means I am limited to very basic words & phrases. Cued Speech means I can express myself in my own words and assist people to lip-read. It's not a language / culture thing - it's a tool to help people understand me.

ASL is not a superior language. But it is a langauage that is the most effect for anyone. Why do you think they give sign language to hearing babies so that they can communicate with their parents and not give deaf babies sign language and promote them to talk. That doesn't makes sense. 80% of cuers went to sign language and discovered its much easier. Its a proven fact right there. So cuers try to use sign language and see for yourself.

CS-it's same repeatedly hand movements in many different words all the time, I got confused here where sign languages have many different hand(s) movements to match the describe of places, shape/character of peoples/things which it's common sense!!! Sign Languages comes from pure deaf communities where we all deaf people use 100% sign languages all the time,we all r doing fine in deaf world AND hearing world as well without CI or CS...for hundreds years so what's wrong/problems with us deaf sign

language users? so we all don't need any CI / CS! We don't try to change you at all like you all try to control and change the life of deaf communites.. that's view as i'm come from deaf family with rich deaf roots and yes, i do know what i'm 'Sign' about...
Do they educate those parents about Sign Language and CS or put SL under the mat and make them do CS.. i have see it may times around in my lifetimes

which it's so sad same goes for CI!!! Lucky us, some of us know where we all come from and carry it down to next our deaf generations!!
Other thing, it's good for disabled (Hearing) people who can't speak, which i'm support for that...
This film's bit lean to one side not in balance on both side, knowhatimsaying?

cont. post: Cued speech users often learn sign too at some point in their lives and naturally most pick it up pretty easy so I wouldn't worry about cuers only being able to communicate with other people who cue. Oh and I am a Gallaudet alumni for the record.

cont post: The downside of cued speech is that there aren't enough transliterators but, depending on your location the same could be said for interpreters. Cued speech is easier to learn as a child but you can definitely learn it as an adult. It is a finite hand system not an infinite language like ASL. .

cont. post: I prefer to use a transliterator for my classes in English (I want to know exactly what the professor is saying not some interpretation by an often less than mediocre interpreter). I primarily use ASL socially to communicate with my friends. Cueing provides visual access to the English language which I feel has given me a strong foundation for reading and writing. Academically I was always on par with my peers.

Wow...some people on here sound very close minded and quite frankly ignorant. Both ASL and Cued speech have their respective places as well as their respective pros and cons. It is not a waste of education....since when is learning something new a waste of time? Oh and before you get on your high horse about how ASL is so superior you might want to recheck your grammar. As someone who signs and cues I can tell you that I honestly love both for different reasons.