Dr R Orin Cornett

Dr. R. Orin Cornett (1913-2002) American physicist born in Driftwood, Okla. He received a Ph.D. in physics and Applied Mathematics from the University of Texas. In 1965 he began working as the Vice President of Long-Range Planning at, then, Gallaudet College (now Gallaudet University). While working at Gallaudet (a university predominantly attended by deaf students), he discovered that many deaf adults fail to achieve literacy at a native-level. To solve this problem, he devised a phonemic system to render English visually rather than acoustically. He named his system Cued Speech and it is used around the world.

For more information on Cued Speech, see the website resources listed below:

External links

Cued Language Network of America (http://www.cuedlanguage.org/)

Testing, Evaluation, and Certification Unit (TECUnit) (http://www.tecunit.org/)

Cued Speech Discovery (http://www.cuedspeech.com/)

Language Matters, Inc. (http://www.language-matters.com/)

DailyCues.com (http://www.dailycues.com/)

Cued Speech Info (http://www.cuedspeech.info/)

Cued Speech Products (http://www.cafepress.com/cuedspeech.html/)

Cuetah: Learn Cued Speech! (http://www.cuetah.com/)

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