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Worster, Elizabeth; Pimperton, Hannah; Ralph-Lewis, Amelia; Monroy, Laura; Hulme, Charles; MacSweeney, Mairéad – Language Learning, 2018
For children who are born deaf, lipreading (speechreading) is an important source of access to spoken language. We used eye tracking to investigate the strategies used by deaf (n = 33) and hearing 5-8-year-olds (n = 59) during a sentence speechreading task. The proportion of time spent looking at the mouth during speech correlated positively with…
Descriptors: Deafness, Eye Movements, Lipreading, Hearing Impairments
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Davies, Rebecca; Kidd, Evan; Lander, Karen – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2009
Background: Previous research has found that newborn infants can match phonetic information in the lips and voice from as young as ten weeks old. There is evidence that access to visual speech is necessary for normal speech development. Although we have an understanding of this early sensitivity, very little research has investigated older…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Research Needs, Phonology, Preschool Children