![]() ![]() She found that cueing helped him focus on the speaker’s face and articulators, and helped him pay attention auditorily. His mother used Cued Speech to correct his articulation and pattern the elements in his speech. One boy was loquacious, but poor articulation and mis-ordering of phonemes made him difficult to understand. (This is important also for effective use with children with apraxia.) The children were required to mimic the cueing as well as the speech and language, because the motoric formation of the cues while speaking provides important patterning information and practice. The target sounds were practiced in words and phrases describing objects they held and activities we were doing. We focused on listening, cueing, and correct articulation for the individual sounds. We used Ling’s sequence of introducing sounds to deaf children. I taught the boys as a group (along with several normally-developing siblings) for an hour each week for about a year. ![]() ![]() ![]() The parents were interested in developing their children’s speech. This author has experience with three children with Down Syndrome, two boys six years old and a girl 4 years old. Parents and educators followed their lead. Speech pathologists were the first persons - beginning in the early 1980’s - to begin using Cued Speech with children with Down Syndrome and other developmental disabilities. ![]()
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