What’s the difference between British Sign Language (BSL) and Cued Speech?
totally clarifies the lip patterns of normal speech by using eight hand shapes in four positions together with the lip patterns of normal speech. In this way every sound uttered looks clearly different. It allows hearing parents to use their own language in a visual form and in its entirety – and therefore it gives deaf children full access to the English language from a very early age. This has huge advantages: children see a complete, grammatically correct language and can use it to communicate. Their full understanding can then be used to learn to read and write, and to help with speech and lip reading. British Sign Language (BSL) is a totally different language from English or other spoken languages, with a very different structure and grammar. It is therefore not an easy or direct route to literacy. Also, because Cued Speech is just a different way for people to express their own spoken language, it can be learnt in just a few hours, whereas it takes years of study to be fully flu
Related Questions
- If a learner has achieved a unit as part of the Level 4 NVQ in British Sign Language (BSL) or Level 4 NVQ in Interpreting (BSL/English). Will they need to repeat it to gain the new qualification?
- What’s the difference between British Sign Language (BSL) and Cued Speech?
- Can Cued Speech be used with British Sign Language?
