This thesis considers the impact of Cued Articulation, a multisensory phonics teaching tool, on children’s phonics knowledge, word-reading ability and attitudes towards learning. Each of the 49 sounds (phonemes) that make up the English phonological system has a separate hand sign - related to where and how, in the mouth, the sound is made. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. The afternoon part of the training focuses on the Cued Articulation Approach which can be used within settings and classrooms to support children presenting with speech sound difficulties.

The empirical paper examines the effectiveness of Cued Articulation as a method to enhance whole-class phonics teaching. Cued Articulation can be used for individuals, pairs and small groups and also as an adjunct to basic literacy work in whole-class teaching. They are easy to learn and help children with auditory processing difficulties to "see" the difference between similarly sounding, paired voiced and unvoiced letter sounds e. The book can be used with the interactive Cued Articulation DVD (interactive whiteboard compatible), which supports the program through demonstration of the cues and sounds. Following a twelve-week intervention period, both groups displayed gains in word-reading ability, with no significant differences between groups.

Cued Articulation and Cued Vowels are two companion texts written by Jane Passy to help teach the pronunciation of spoken English.

So we support the use of phonics with a visual cue that cues our children to our lips, so while they are listening they are watching how these sounds are formed at the mouth and supporting the development of their lip reading skills as well as their phonics. Teachers found that using the cues not only helped the children with difficulties, but it also raised the sound awareness skills of everyone in the class. It is recommended that users have the underlying knowledge of sounds and the sound system of English.The on-site therapist has introduced me to cued articulation, which is really working in helping him produce sounds he has never been able to say. As tutors become familiar with the system they will realise how useful CA is, and in how many situations it can be used. The ‘f’ sign actually helps some children achieve the sound as you can push the lip in to make contact with the teeth. When children are first attempting to sound out and blend words or trying to listen for the sounds in words, Cued Articulation can help. I know one school that have adopted Cued Articulation instead of the jolly phonics actions as they find it so useful.

The systematic literature review examines the effect of multisensory phonics instruction on children’s word-recognition skills. The hand gestures used in Cued Articulation show the children what their body is doing and helps them to learn to make the sounds correctly. Each video in set one has the letter sound through cued articulation then letter name through finger spelling and then a word in pictures and signed that begins with that letter. The really clever bit about Cued Articulation is that it gives information about all of this in a single sign! This is represented by starting the sign where the sound is made so ‘p’ and ‘b’ start on the lips where as ‘k’ and ‘g’ start down on your throat.The previously separate titles Cued Articulation and Cued Vowels are now combined and updated, with this edition covering consonants, vowels, demonstrative images and full colour coding throughout. In their daily Phonics lessons, they learn to link a sound (phoneme) with its written letter (grapheme). It is useful for speech pathologists, speech and language therapists, remedial and recovery teachers and primary teachers in the classroom. For example a ‘p’ which is a voiceless, bilabial, plosive – meaning no voice box, made with both lips and it’s a popping sound – is made by putting your index finger and thumb together, putting them by the corner of your mouth and then pulling them apart as you say the sound.

For us it is essential to explore phonics through listening and visual support, this ensures that the children understand that each letter has a name and a sound, and that we can listen for the sounds in words. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Originally devised to help severely speech and language handicapped children to see a sound and hear a letter by the use of easy and logical hand cues, the Cued Articulation system has, over the last three decades, proved an invaluable teaching tool. Cued Articulation’s particular benefit for ESOL and EAL is that it is both a visual and cognitive approach to tackling pronunciation difficulties.Cued Articulation was originally devised to help severely speech and language handicapped children to see a sound and hear a letter by the use of easy and logical hand cues. It is a full-colour comprehensive description of Jane Passy's methods for teaching speech and language-challenged children and adults how to make the sounds required for articulate speech. Through multi-model stimulation, children are encouraged to learn letter-sound correspondence and apply this knowledge to word-reading. It is a helpful tool to promote reading fluency, particularly in blending and segmenting multi-syllable words. It is used by speech pathologists, speech and language therapists, remedial and reading recovery teachers and primary teachers who find the approach helpful in showing phoneme-grapheme relationships and use it in the classroom to teach children the sounds of speech.