Cued speech, which was created 50 years ago, is a visual mode of communication using hand cues with mouth movements. It allows people who are deaf and hard of hearing to have visual access to spoken ...

I read Lila Guterman’s article “The Silent Challenge” (March 9) with interest. I have been a cued-speech transliterator for 20 years, and I first thought that the article would be about cued speech. I ...