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If the signs are just small set of cues for the most common phrases a police officer needs to convey, then why not just teach this as an ASL subset?
by jacobr1 6y ago
If the signs are just small set of cues for the most common phrases a police officer needs to convey, then why not just teach this as an ASL subset?
- SamBam 6y agoDid you watch the video on Cued Speech? It's not a set of signs for common phrases at all. It's simply a small set of gestures that accompany some of the hard-to-lip-read sounds, like /m/ /p/ /b/. So if you're saying "mat" "bat" or "pat" those all look the same to a lip-reader. With the cues, you have a small gesture that is distinct for /m/ /p/ /b/. They combine together to make a total of about a dozen gestures that can be used to differentiate between any hard-to-understand English word. So it's not a phrase book. It just allows you to say anything you want to say and be understood a little more clearly by a lip-reader.