Broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby yesterday presented an appeal on behalf of the Cued Speech Association UK, a charity helping deaf children and adults to overcome the difficulties of learning to lipread by teaching them to recognise visual cues within the lip-patterns of everyday speech.

The ten-minute programme can be viewed online here and will be broadcast again at lunchtime on 20 August on (BBC2). The appeal should ensure that more families hear about Cued Speech and that they have the opportunity to benefit from it.