Richard Orin Cornett's National Cued Speech

Sometimes in life one must overcome challenges. The goal is to never give up. No matter the environment, one must overcome the obstacles set before them. Through trial and error one can do that and succeed. That is exactly what cued speech did for the deaf and their families.
Richard Orin Cornett was born in small town in Oklahoma, on November 14, 1913. Richard Cornett is married to Lorene Cornett, they have 3 children, Robert, Stanley, and Linda. Cornett went to three different school, Oklahoma Baptist, University of Oklahoma, and University of Texas where he majored in Physics and applied mathematics. Cornett was the director of the Division of Higher Education at the U.S office of Education. Cornett was then offered a position at Gallaudet University but really hesitated to take the job. Finally in 1965 he accepted to be the Vice-President of Long-Range Planning at …show more content…
It is a phoneme-based system which makes traditionally spoken languages accessible by using a small number of handshapes, known as cues, in different locations near the mouth, as a supplement to speechreading. The National Cued Speech Association defines Cued Speech as "...a visual mode of communication that uses hand shapes and placements in combination with the mouth movements and speech to make the phonemes of spoken language look different from each other." It adds information about the phonology of the word that is not visible on the lips. This allows people with hearing or language difficulties to visually access the fundamental properties of language. It is now used with people with a variety of language, speech, communication, and learning needs. It is different from American Sign Language, which is a separate language from English. Cued Speech is considered a communication modality, but can be used as a strategy to support auditory rehabilitation, speech articulation, and literacy