Marc was diagnosed as profoundly deaf at age eight months (1969). Cued Speech and the Acquisition of Language. 250 500 1kHz 2kHz 4kHz 8kHz AC R 70 85 95 105 NR NR L 80 85 100 NR NR NR BC R 30* 60* NR NR NR L 30* 55* NR NR NR AC - air conduction BC - bone conduction NR - no response. It is consistent with the earliest one done at age 8 months. Sign Language Studies The most recent audiogram available on Marc (November, 1972). Hopefully, Marc's case will augment and correct expectations regarding the early use of cued speech and add to growing evidence regarding the naturalness of signs and fingerspelling. The following report divides into two parts, the first dealing with the acquisition of language with cues, and the second with the acquisition of language through signs and fingerspelling. The principal finding is that cued speech apparently does not have sufficient properties of language to allow its acquisition to proceed in a natural and spontaneous fashion whereas signs and fingerspelling, even when introduced following the syntax of English, do have such sufficiencies. (Table 1) The case provides unique information about two visual communication systems (cued speech and signed English) and allows some tentative evaluation of both forms of communication. This paper is a preliminary report on the language development of a profoundly deaf child named Marc.
However, systematic descriptions of the acquisition of language are few in number. For instance, in a recent news release (January 1973) from the cued speech program at Gallaudet College, the youngest "cue child" is identified and heralded as acquiring language rapidly. At this point, however, most evaluations are sketchy and promotional. In Australia some rather complete commitments to the system were made (Cued Speech News 1971, 1972).
Several schools adopted cues at various levels of commitment and in varying degrees of usage. Nash With the introduction of cued speech a few short years ago, expectations were raised among parents and educators that perhaps an answer was at hand to the nagging question of what is the "best" approach to introducing language to deaf children (Miles 1967).
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:ĬUES OR SIGNS: A CASE STUDY IN LANGUAGE ACQUISITION Jeffrey E.
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