Bimodal Language vs. Cued Speech: A Comparison
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Bimodal Language and Cued Speech are two different communication methods used to support individuals with hearing impairments, but they have distinct approaches and purposes.
They are both designed to assist individuals with hearing impairments in understanding and producing oral language and both methods incorporate visual components, even though the goal of both languages is the same, the way to achieve that goal changes a lot. Bimodal language involves using a combination of signs, gestures, and facial expressions when talking, you can just express vocabulary and may be affected by cultural aspects, meanwhile cued speech uses a set of hand shapes and movement to visually represent the phonemes, the sound, not the letters. Reading lips when talking in English is a really hard job as a lot of different sounds look the same, such as /ee/ and /i/, so with this speech we clarify what sound we are producing.
Sign Language and Bimodal Language are related but distinct forms of communication, they are both used for communicating with deaf or hard of hearing individuals and they both use gestures and visual signs. Although the goal in both cases is really similar, the way to achieve that goal changes a lot.
Bimodal language is just used for vocabulary for clarifying the oral language and even though is universal it may be affected by cultural aspects, meanwhile sign language is a complete language with its own grammar and syntax, depending on the country you are the signs changes as it is not universal and depends on the geographical and cultural factors, just like the oral language.
Cerebral palsy is a neurological disorder that affects the motor function, the muscle control, the coordination and the movement. Considering etiology, we can find 3 different moments in which cerebral palsy can be developed: prenatal, intra-natal and post-natal. Considering the types, we can also find 3 different ones depending on the affected zone on our body.
We can find several differences between the 3 types, the affected area of our body, the consequences they generate and even the frequency with which each of the types occur. In the case of spastic is the most common, the lesion occurs in the pyramidal system affecting voluntary movements and generating hypertonicity and spastic dysarthria. The second type is Athetoid, the least common of the three, the lesion must be in the extra-pyramidal system affecting besides the voluntary movements also the voluntary ones and generating fluctuating tonicity and various speech problems and the last one, ataxic which is given when the lesion is in the cerebellum generating little coordination of the voluntary movements, hypertonicity and various alterations (in the posture, the strength, the distance estimations, etc.).