The article challenges educators to rethink reading instruction practices for students who are deaf or hard of hearing. The authors begin with a discussion of the role of phonology in reading, then summarize the evidence of phonological coding among skilled deaf readers and investigate alternative routes for acquiring phonologically related skills such as the use of speechreading, articulatory ...

Manual Cued Speech is a system of hand gestures designed to help deaf speechreaders distinguish among ambiguous speech elements. We have developed a computerized cueing system that uses automatic speech recognition to determine and display cues to the cue receiver. Keyword scores of 66% in low-context sentences have been obtained with this system, almost double the speechreading-alone scores. W...

Gestural interfaces, besides providing natural means of humancomputer interaction for everyone, enable the hearing impaired to use sign language or better understand speech through vision. This chapter overviews (1) the various modalities involved in gestured languages (2) the mean to automatically apprehend them individually and (3) to fuse them in order to provide a communication medium adapt...

Benefits to lexical access are provided by acoustically-cued speaker characteristics (such as gender and age), but little work has investigated these effects in meaning-based tasks. Word recognition is affected both by a word’s base-level activation and by associative spread of activation among words, and is correlated with speed of lexical access. In a free association task and a semantic prim...

This paper studies the linguistic input attended by a deaf child exposed to cued speech (CS) in the final part of her prelinguistic period (18-24 months). Subjects are the child, her mother, and her therapist. Analyses have provided data about the quantity of input directed to the child (oral input, more than 1,000 words per half-an-hour session; cued ratio, more than 60% of oral input; and att...

Cued Speech (CS) is a communication system that uses manual gestures to facilitate lipreading. In this study, we investigated how CS information interacts with natural speech using Event-Related Potential (ERP) analyses in French-speaking, typically hearing adults (TH) who were either naïve or experienced producers. The audiovisual (AV) presentation of lipreading elicited an amplitude attenuati...

Purpose This study explored the intervention processes used by speech-language pathologists (SLPs) to treat children with speech sound disorders (SSDs). Method Semistructured, individual, in-depth interviews were conducted 11 Australian SLPs. Inductive content analysis was classify data provide a description of current for SSDs. Results Three main factors identified relating SLPs: (a) target se...

“Langage Parlé Complété (LPC)” is the French manual system – corresponding to Cued Speech – used to complement lip reading and thus enhance speech perception for hearing-impaired people. In an anticipatory rounding context, a French speaker was audiovisually recorded while pronouncing and coding [i#yi] sequences with two different pause durations. The effect of pause duration on hand and lip te...