Cued Speech and Cued Language Development for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children

Carol LaSasso, PhD Dr. LaSasso is a Professor in the Department of Hearing, Speech, and Language Sciences at Gallaudet University in Washington D.C. Kelly Lamar Crain, PhD Kelly Lamar Crain, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Aural Habilitation: Deaf Education at the University of South Florida, Tampa. Dr. Crain earned a bachelor's degree in Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology from the University of Southern Mississippi, and master's and doctoral degrees in Deaf Education from Gallaudet University. He became interested in Cued Speech while studying at Gallaudet and completed his doctoral dissertation on the effects of cueing on deaf readers' phonological awareness. Dr. Crain is also a licensed and certified teacher of students who are deaf and hard of hearing, a qualified educational interpreter, and a certified Cued Speech instructor. Jacqueline Leybaert, PhD Jacqueline Leybaert, PhD, is a Professor of Psychology at the Universite libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. She teaches courses on language acquisition, cognitive development, sensory deficits and neural plasticity, and dyscalculia. Her dissertation examined phonological codes used by deaf children in reading, spelling, and short term serial memory. Since then, her research interests have focused on the effect of Cued Speech on "the three R's." More recently, she directed research related to audio-visual integration and speech perception in noise in children with cochlear implants. She has co-edited two books in French about linguistic and cognitive development in deaf children and has written numerous articles and book chapters about these topics.

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