Background: During speech perception, the ability to integrate auditory and visual information causes speech to sound louder and be more intelligible, and leads to quicker processing. This integration is important in early language development, and also continues to affect speech comprehension throughout the lifespan. Previous research shows that…

The relationship of initial speechreading performance scores to final performance scores following shortterm training was determined for 30 normal-hearing, sighted adults. Results indicated a highly significant linear relationship between pre- and posttest scores. Ss with higher pretest scores tended to have a greater increase in performance than…

Low positive correlation between sentence familiarity and lipreading values was found when deaf college students were used to determine quantitative sentence familiarity and lipreading values of the John Tracy Clinic Filmed Test of Lipreading. (Author/KW)

The study compared the speechreading performance of 22 deaf children (average age 6 years) to that of normal hearing children. The normal hearing children may have been assisted by the visible aspects of words while the deaf children seemed to be influenced solely by language structure. (Author)

Synthetic speech-like articulations were presented to normal hearing adult subjects (N=13) via the visual modality with computer generated animations. Results indicated that most subjects categorically labeled the animations of speech articulations with sharp transitions between phonemic categories. Results have implications for speechreading.…

Discusses how listeners compensate for coarticulatory influences of one speech sound on another and examines whether lipread information penetrates this perceptual compensation mechanism. Results of three experiments indicate that biasing of the fricative by lipread information and compensation for coarticulation can be dissociated. (Author/VWL)

Purpose: To examine the extent to which sentences retain their levels of spoken intelligibility relative to other sentences in a set (the "sentence effect") across different types of signal distortion. Method: The Central Institute for the Deaf (CID) sentences were rendered difficult to understand through the addition of broadband noise. These…

A reevaluation of a previous study which found a significant improvement in speechreading scores of 15 normal hearing adults following a word-scoring training intervention found that, though subjects increased verbal output and mean length of utterance, they did not improve sentence comprehension, syntactic correctness, or overall response…

The effects of consonantal context on vowel lipreading were assessed for 30 adult males with mild-to-moderate sensorineural hearing loss who lipread videotape recordings of two female talkers. Results indicated that vowel intelligibility was significantly poorer in most contexts involving highly visible consonants. (Author/DB)

Results of a survey to document the character, extent, and effectiveness of Tadoma training (a means of teaching speechreading and speech production using vibrotactile information) and use in the United States and Canada are presented. (Author/CL)

The Lip-Reader Trainer, an experimental software package, converts typed sentences into animated mouth movements to help train hearing impaired persons in lipreading. The package was designed to produce correct mouth configurations and still be easy to use. Modifications include additional hardware to produce voice output and development of…

The investigation assessed change in the speechreading performance of 33 young hearing impaired children over a period of 1 academic year. Pre- and posttesting with the Diagnostic Test of Speechreading revealed signficant improvement in speechreading scores for words and sentences, with no improvement evident for phrases. (Author)

Twenty normal-hearing, sighted subjects (ages 20-42) viewed soundless videotapes of a speaker reading lists from the two forms of the Utley Lipreading Test and three from Harris' revised Central Institute for the Deaf (CID) Everyday Sentences. Results do not support the interchange of Utley and CID sentences for test-retest comparisons of…