WHO CHANGED THE NAME OF CUED SPEECH?

No one changed the name of the Cued Speech system. The term Cued Speech is used when talking about the system of handshapes and placements. Cued Speech is a modality (like speaking or signing). However, none of these modalities has any meaning until they are used in meaningful ways.

The term cued language is used when cueing is applied meaningfully to a natural, human language. English is a language that can be spoken (spoken language), written (written language) or cued (cued language). Spoken English and cued English function as foundations for written English development in much the same ways – except speech operates acoustically and cueing operates visually.

The term cued English is reserved specifically to instances where English is the language being cued.