This much-anticipated scholarly volume promises to be an essential/must-have resource for anyone who is interested in natural language acquisition, the development of reading, and academic achievement of deaf and hard of hearing children. It is a compilation of research and practical applications of cued speech and cued language, authored by 39 authors from nine different fields of study (speech science, hearing science, linguistics, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, cognition, transliteration, computer science, and deaf education) in four countries. This theoretically and empirically based volume is a vital source of information to any advocate, professional, or parent of a deaf child. It promises to be a required book in graduate courses in deaf education programs as well as libraries of schools serving deaf children across the country. Readers of this book will learn that cueing has moved far beyond Cornett's 1966 invention of Cued Speech.This is true in terms of its use (by whom, how, and for what purposes); its status as a means of first-order language transmission; and cross-disciplinary contributions to numerous other fields of study, including: linguistics, psycholinguistics, cognition, speech science, hearing science, reading, and deaf education. Our understanding of visual language and communication has been enhanced by the inclusion of Cued Speech in academic dialogues by highlighting the similarities and differences among spoken, signed, and cued language. Readers will learn of the latest computer-generated aids to communication, which are either being developed for use with Cued Speech or were conceived because of Cued Speech. Readers will also learn of the expanding role of Cued Speech in the lives of hearing and deaf individuals (e.g., developmental, social, academic). Finally, readers of this book will understand how the case of Cued Speech lends further support to the notion that children, regardless of hearing status, have an irrepressible predisposition to acquire language, whether signed, spoken, or cued, whether alphabetic or tonal.

Table of Contents:
SECTION 1: CUED SPEECH AND CUED LANGUAGE Chapter 1: Why a Book about Cued Speech and Cued Language and Why Now? Carol LaSasso Chapter 2 Fundamental Principles of Cued Speech and Cued Language Thomas Shull & Kelly Lamar Crain Chapter 3 Cued Language: What Deaf Native Cuers Perceive of Cued Speech Melanie Metzger & Earl Fleetwood Chapter 4 Psycholinguistic Study of Phonological Processes in Deaf Adult Cuers Daniel Koo & Ted Supalla SECTION II: CUED SPEECH FOR PHONOLOGICAL PERCEPTION Chapter 5 Audiovisual Phonology: Lipreading and Cued Lipreading Jesus Alegria Chapter 6 Cued Speech for Enhancing Speech Perception of Individuals with Cochlear Implants Jacqueline Leybaert, Cecile Colin, & Catharine Hage SECTION III: CUEING FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE ACQUISITION Chapter 7 Early Linguistic Input Received by a Deaf Child Exposed to la Palabra Complementada During the Pre-Linguistic Period Ignacio Moreno-Torres & Santiago Torres Chapter 8 Early Language Development of Congenitally Deaf Twins of Deaf Parents who are Native Cuers of American English Kelly Lamar Crain Chapter 9 Experiences and Perceptions of Cueing Deaf Adults in the U.S. Kelly Lamar Crain and Carol LaSasso Chapter 10 A Bilingual (ASL and Cued American English) Program for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students: Theory to Practice Kitri Larson Kyllo SECTION IV: CUED LANGUAGE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF READING Chapter 11 Cued Speech for the Development of the Alphabetic Principle Jacqueline Leybaert, Stephanie Colin, & Carol LaSasso Chapter 12 Cued Language for the Development of Reading Comprehension Carol LaSasso and Kelly Lamar Crain Chapter 13 Phonological Awareness, Short Term Memory, and Fluency in Hearing and Deaf Individuals of Different Communication Backgrounds Daniel Koo, Kelly Lamar Crain, Carol LaSasso, and Guinevere Eden Chapter 14 Generative Rhyming Abilities of 10-14 Year Old Readers who are Deaf Kelly Lamar Crain and Carol LaSasso SECTION V: CUED SPEECH FOR ATYPICAL POPULATIONS Chapter 15 Children with Auditory Neuropathy/Auditory Dys-synchrony: The Value of Cued Speech in the Face of an Uncertain Language Development Trajectory Michelle Arnold & Charles Berlin Chapter 16 Applications of Cued Speech with Deaf Children with Additional Disabilities Affecting Language Development Donna Morere Chapter 17 Cued Spanish as L1: Teaching la Palabra Complementada to Spanish-Speaking Parents of Deaf Children in the U.S. Claire Klossner & Kelly Lamar Crain SECTION VI: CUED SPEECH/CUED LANGUAGE ON THE HORIZON Chapter 18 Lipreading, the Lexicon, and Cued Speech Lynne Bernstein, Edward Auer, & Jintao Jiang Chapter 19 Analysis of Cued Speech Production and Perception: Toward a Complete Text-to-Cued Speech Synthesizer Virginie Attina, Guillaume Gibert, Marie-Agnes Cathiard, Gerard Bailly & Denis Beautemps Chapter 20 Development of Speechreading Supplements Based on Automatic Speech Recognition Paul Duchnowski, David Lum, Jean Krause, Matthew Sexton, Maroula Bratakos, and Louis Braida Chapter 21 Automatic Cued Speech Jean Krause, Paul Duchnowski, & Louis Braida Chapter 22 An Automatic Visible Speech Supplement for Deaf Individuals' Speech Comprehension in Face-to-Face and Classroom Situations Dominic Massaro, Miguel Carreira-Perpinan, & David J. Merrill Chapter 23 A Version of the Educational Interpreter Performance Assessment for Cued Speech Transliterators: Prospects and Significance Jean Krause, Brenda Schick, & Judy Kegl Chapter 24 How Cued Speech is Processed in the Brain: Directions for Future Research Mario Aparicio, Philippe Peigneux, Brigitte Charlier & Jacqueline Leybaert Index