Juan Carlos Criado

FOREING LANGUAGE LEARNING AND INCLUSION

Hilary McColl’s background is impressive. Among other things, she has worked on two European projects aimed at guaranteeing special needs students’ rights to learn languages. Being deaf herself, she is particularly concerned with children with hearing impairments. But her website also gives support in foreign languages to autistic children, children with dyslexia, learners with difficulties in communication, students who are blind or partially sighted and those with Down's syndrome. The link you have above will lead you directly to the section of her site which deals with how to teach foreign languages to these learners.
You will find the details of some projects and plenty of articles, resources and links which will be of interest to those involved in teaching foreign languages to learners with particular needs.

http://hilarymccoll.co.uk/specialneeds.html

CUED SPEECH E-LEARNING

The resource I propose this time is an online course in Cued Speech. The course is visually appealing, includes videos and makes us get down to working quickly.
But, what is Cued Speech? Although we could think that it looks similar to a sign language for the deaf, we are talking about another system of communication which uses hand-shapes to represent English sounds. According to the owners of the website, this system, which was invented in 1965, works very well when used together with British Sign Language (BSL) and can help deaf children to achieve literacy levels equivalent to the hearing ones.
http://www.learntocue.co.uk/player_content.html