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From: Jessica.Ostrow@f337.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Jessica Ostrow)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Lipreading
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Date: 30 May 91 04:07:34 GMT
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[This is from the Silent Talk Conference]

* In a message originally to Susanna Tam, James Womack typed:

JW> What you say is true about the need for time and patience
JW> with lipreading. It simply isn't as simple for a lot of
JW> people as some people try to make it sound. The bottomline
JW> is that lipreading is more an art than a skill.  Some have
JW> the aptitude for it, some don't ( a lot don't.).

Just wondering, do you think that experience with the spoken English
language might also have something to do with learning how to lipread? I
would be curious about whether postlingually deaf people learn lipreading
better than prelingually deaf people?

With me, I find that it just depends on the person...sometimes I just cannot
understand a person by just watching them, but need some additional feedback
besides just their mouth movements, or extra work on their part...to slow
down or speak slower or louder (which enhances their lip movements). I have
one friend who I have to pester to speak up/speak clearly and I still have a
hard time understanding him...

With the stats as they are, wouldn't it be better for educators to focus on
sign language with deaf children so that they miss a lot less? I don't know
what the situation is now, but from what I've read, and experienced, there
has been TOO much focus on speech in the past to the detriment of other
things the students need to learn...I hope that's changing now though...

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