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As printed in Hearing Health, volume 21:1,
Spring 2005
By Amy Ruberl
According to the American Speech-Language-Hearing
Association, children with hearing loss have difficulty
with all areas of academic achievement, especially reading,
which can lead to feelings of isolation and unhappiness
with school. Yet poor academic performance is by no
means a foregone conclusion for a child with hearing
loss. Many excel academically due, in part, to their
families’ interventions and at-home learning strategies.
Learning and practicing Cued Speech can be a great
head start for literacy. The entire family can enroll
in Cued Speech classes and use it with young learners
to teach English and its many phonemes using their eyes,
hands and mouths. At first, cueing will be slow, but
over time and with more training, the family’s
ability to cue improves and communication comes freely.
To help young learners along, family members may read
while cueing and play cueing games with words, changing
one letter in a word to make a new word. Parents who
intuitively practice what research has shown, that play
with consonants and vowels helps in developing good
reading skills, will nurture children who can rhyme
at an early age and are more likely to be stronger readers.
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