Scope and Contents One of the drawbacks of Cued Speech is that it is no help in speechreading someone who does not know it. Dr. Cornett hoped to design an “Autocuer,” a device similar to a hearing aid that would receive spoken sounds and turn them into tactile or visual cues without the speaker needing to know Cued Speech. While a table-mounted prototype was developed, attempts to miniaturize the Autocuer to make it wearable were not successful. This series includes progress reports on the development of the...

Scope and Contents

Dr. Cornett regularly taught classes on Cued Speech at the undergraduate and graduate level at Gallaudet. He also taught at other institutions, such as Maryland’s Montgomery College. The bulk of this series is student examinations and papers, with some outlines and syllabi. It also includes some independent study work by students, which included producing Cued Speech phoneme lists for other languages.