THRASS and Cued Speech
Information and how to install THE THRASS PHONEME MACHINE with a Cued Speech option
The Phoneme Machine is a wonderful resource to make phonics accessible to deaf children.
It teaches the 44 sounds (phonemes) and 120 main spelling choices (keygraphemes) of English using 500 key words which are shown cued, spoken, and written.
There are three sections - all of which have a Cued Speech option.
1) Calendar (see below) with the Cued Speech option activated
Clicking on each word in the calendar produces either a spoken or a cued version of the word – ideal for learning to read whole words. As shown above, it covers the days, dates, months, numbers, colours and letter names.
2) The Phoneme Grid has videos of moving lips pronouncing all the 44 phonemes of English – in the order of the THRASS charts.
In the Cued Speech option the videos of the lips are larger and the handshapes and positions of Cued Speech are added. 
The Cued Speech option is turned on and off in the Phoneme grid.
3) The Word Grid which shows all the 500 key words – all of which have a video of the cued word
When you double click on a word on the Word Grid a new page appears (below) with videos of the phonemes which make up the word and videos of the whole word both spoken and cued.
Instructions for downloading the free Phoneme Machine
Produced by THRASS (UK) Ltd
Software is available in both PC and Mac formats. Go to www.thrass.co.uk/pm6options.htm or to www.phonememachine.co.uk.
Register and download version 6.1 of the Phoneme Machine. Follow the instructions on-line. You will need to complete a short on-line form and will then be sent an email with a serial number. Copy and paste the serial number to the box shown on the Phoneme Machine page to activate the programme.
Download the Cued Speech Video Clips Installer. Right click on the link using the ‘Save Target As’ option. Follow the instructions to save it in a programme file - extract the CS Video Clips Installer file, when instructed to do so.
There should be 3 files saved - the CS Video Clips Installer, a CS folder and an Xtras folder.
You will need these files installed in order to use the Cued Speech video option on the Phoneme Machine.
The Phoneme Machine is 50MB and the Cued Speech Video Clips are a further 80MB (which takes about 6 minutes to download)
