“The second, uses just one hand and finger positions shows what he is saying.”
Cued speech is fairly easy to learn. Very simplified explanation: When lip reading, Bat and Pat look alike. So do sip and zip. Cued speech uses one hand near the mouth to indicate the differences.
Per wikipedia, “Cued speech is a visual system of communication used with and among deaf or hard-of-hearing people. It is a phonemic-based system which makes traditionally spoken languages accessible by using a small number of handshapes, known as cues (representing consonants), in different locations near the mouth (representing vowels) to convey spoken language in a visual format.”
