Developing a Bilingual “Persian Cued Speech” Website for Parents and Professionals of Children with Hearing Impairment

BACKGROUND: The use of the internet as a source of information gathering, self-help and support is becoming increasingly recognized. Parents and professionals of children with hearing impairment have been shown to seek information about different communication approaches online. Cued Speech is a very new approach to Persian speaking pupils. Our aim was to develop a useful website to give related information about Persian Cued Speech to parents and professionals of children with hearing impairment. METHODS: All Cued Speech websites from different countries that fell within the first ten pages of Google and Yahoo search-engines were assessed. Main subjects and links were studied. All related information was gathered from the websites, textbooks, articles etc. RESULTS: Using a framework that combined several criteria for health-information websites, we developed the Persian Cued Speech website for three distinct audiences (parents, professionals and children). CONCLUSION: An accurate, complete, accessible and readable resource about Persian Cued Speech for parents and professionals is available now.