What is Visual Phonics?
Visual Phonics was conceived as a mechanism to make the phonemic aspects of spoken language visible to students who are DHH. See-the-sound/Visual Phonics was developed in 1982 by the International Communication Learning Institute (Waddy-Smith & Wilson, 2003). It consists of 45 hand and grapheme cues. The hand cues provide visual and kinesthetic information that can be associated with the way a sound is produced verbally. For example, the /p/ sound is represented with a hand cue that simulates the “plosiveness” of /p/ – the air being released from the lips. The grapheme cues are unique symbols that when paired with letters provide students with a visual correlate for the sound a letter might “make” in a particular word. The National Organization: International Communication Learning Institute (ICLI) was organized in 1982 as a non-profit organization designed to help people who don’t fit the “educational norm.” It is largely funded by organizations such as the Telephone Pioneers of Ameri
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