Profile: National Cued Speech Association offers cued speech for communication, literacy and language development. Cued Speech is a mode of communication based on the phonemes and properties of traditional spoken languages. Our cued speech was created to enable parents of children who are deaf or hard of hearing to make their spoken language clearly visible. Cueing allows users who are deaf, hard of hearing language/communication disorders to access the basic, fundamental properties of spoken languages through the use of vision. Cued speech makes all the phonemes of speech visible by using eight hand shapes in four positions near the mouth in combination with the lip shapes & articulation movements of speech. It has been used with children who have autism & other pervasive developmental disorders (PDD). It is used for children with & without hearing loss to accelerate the learning phonics, speech or language instruction.