had to learn two different systems: American Sign Language (ASL) for person-to-person communication and English for reading and writing. As many sounds look identical on the lips (such as and ), the hand signals introduce a visual contrast in place of the formerly acoustic contrast. Cued Speech may also help people hearing incomplete or distorted sound--according to the National Cued Speech Association at cuedspeech.org, "cochlear implants and Cued Speech are perfect partners".

Since cued speech