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The lead section of this article could possibly use some further information about what a manual code for a spoken language is. The first source, S. Supalla and McKee, gives some more information about what MCE was designed for and how it differs from a deaf/natural sign language. It may be useful to explain how MCE is different from natural sign languages used in countries where English is a majority language, such as ASL in the United States and Canada, BSL in Britain, Auslan in Australia, etc. I also would suggest a sentence that says that MCE is a manual code (maybe with an explanation of what that is) and even possibly a link to the wikipedia page on constructed languages. There are also Wikipedia pages on manual codes that might be useful to link.

In the "Manually Coded English Systems" there are several issues that may need to be addressed, especially the absence of citations for most of the text. There are multiple claims that don't appear to reference a source and some which directly or indirectly contradict sources that I can find. The second paragraph of this section seems to show some particularly stark bias, included two poorly supported claims that "there is no research to suggest," in cases where such research does exist and contradicts the claims made in the article. There also seems to be some potentially inappropriate value judgments about "correct English" or "correct" language use present here.

Additional sections could possibly be added here, describing the methods, history, and philosophies of MCE. Particularly, many sources have brought up a "rate of transmission" issue that could be notable here.

The "In Education" section again does not cite any sources, and makes some potentially biased claims about the controversy about the use of MCE in education. This section should include a link/reference to a Wikipedia page on bilingual-bimodal education, and/or some further information about philosophies of Deaf education beyond the manualism-oralism debate. Descriptions about denying language access should link to a Wikipedia article on language deprivation, if it exists.

The section "Types" does not cite any sources for the subsections "Fingerspelling," "Signed English," "Contact Sign," "Sign-supported speech, or simultaneous communication," "Signed-English (SE) - American," "Signing Exact English (SEE2)," "Linguistics of visual English (LOVE)," "Conceptually accurate signed English" (which also contains some claims marked dubious), "Rochester method," "Signed English (SE) - British," "Sign Supported English (SSE)," "Cued Speech" "Paget Gorman sign system," and "Australasian signed English." Some of these types have links to specific Wikipedia pages where additional sources could possibly be identified. Additionally, as noted in these sections, an argument could be made to remove "Contact Sign" because it is not a form of Manually Coded English, and potentially "Cued Speech."