This program emphasizes oral skill development, the use of amplification, auditory learning, speechreading, and speech. Not every deaf child has sufficient residual hearing to learn effectively through the auditory channel, but many can. This program encourages the use of all available communication channels for the deaf student including speech, speechreading, audition, sign language, and fingerspelling. This program uses a system that has eight hand shapes and four vowel group positions. Sounds that look alike on the lips are cued differently, so they can be distinguished from one another.
Cues represent the sounds of spoken language.