Rainbow Passage

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The Rainbow Passage was written by Grant Fairbanks. This public domain paragraph contains is frequently used by speech-language pathologists to gather a speech sample. The first four lines of the passage (through “…he is looking for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.) capture all phonemes for American English and many r-colored vowels (except / / which occurs in sentence 6: miracle). This passage can be useful for Cued Speech instructors and transliterator trainers who want to quickly and efficiently assess a cuers knowledge of cues at the discourse level.


See Also

Grandfather Passage