--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Peter T. Daniels"
<grammatim@...> wrote:

> suzmccarth wrote:
>
> > My point is that Mr. Daniels has quoted no research, again...
>
> Pot, kettle, black.

If the cap fits...

> "Cued Speech is not a very well known option, but it is gaining
>in popularity because of reading levels.
> The average child using sign language graduates with a third
>grade reading level.
> The average Cued Speech child graduates from high school
>with college level reading abilities.
> Many children who switch from ASL to Cued Speech make-up
>2-3 years in their reading levels in one school year."

> http://www.cuedspeech.org/sub/viewpoints/Our_Success.asp

Oddly enough you responded to this post of mine with an
accusation of "child abuse". Now you forget that I even had
evidence! Cued Speech is a way of giving access to English.
The low literacy rates of the Deaf is from the Gallaudet website.
The Laurent Clerc Centre now boasts that audiologists and
Speech therapists are central to their literacy program, as it is in
mine.

Here is another from
http://www.cuedspeech.co.uk/news/winter2001.pdf.

"All deaf children are supported by Cued Speech at Alternatives
in Education for the Hearing Impaired at the Alexander Graham
Bell Montessori School in Mount Prospect, IL, USA. In answer to
a request for statistics about reading levels the Executive
Director Holly Trueblood, wrote:
ÔWe test the deaf children every spring using the same testing
instruments used across the country for hearing children. We
need someone with some time on their hands to sit down and
make comparisons from year to year and follow each child's
progress. I did that project on a two year comparison a year ago
and found that using the language, reading and vocabulary
scores all of our children except one were scoring within a year
of their age-appropriate grade level, and most were well above
grade level, some as much as 6 years! Even including those
who were on the low end, all children had shown at least a 1.2
year gain during the intervening year, some as much as three
years growth.' "

The following is on the auditory method.

"Research conducted by the Central Institute For The Deaf in St.
Louis, Missouri, compared reading levels of 169 deaf students
in auditory programs and 158 similarly disabled students in a
total communications program which incorporates sign
language with speech.
* It was found that the auditory students at age 16 were reading
at a 13-14 year old level, while the total communication students
were only reading at the level of 8-9 year old. "

http://www.voicefordeafkids.com/clouds/avTherapy.htm

I have interacted with people from the Deaf community in the
past, but mostly to listen to a commentary on the difficulty of
literacy acquisition. However, now I am in a position, with recent
research, to understand how a combination of resources can
make a difference.

Suzanne