Developing a bilingual Persian Cued Speech website for par-ents 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 increas-ingly 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 profes-sionals 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 pro-fessionals is available now.