Among the study's results were that there is a significant relationship between reading and lipreading ability, and although good readers may be either good or poor lipreaders, poor readers are more likely to be poor than good lipreaders. (Author/CL)

The investigation involving 30 normal hearing college juniors concerned the relation between speechreading performance and the ability to identify sequences of alphabet letters. Significant correlations occurred between fourth order words at a brief exposure duration (2 msecs.) and performance on a speechreading test. (Author/SB)

The development of the oral interpreter for speechreading assistance to deaf and hard of hearing individuals is reviewed; desired characteristics and skills are outlined (including attitudes, knowledge, and curriculum offerings); and a seven-item code of ethics developed by the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf is presented. (CL)

Five groups of subjects (n=54, ages 15-43) were assigned a repair strategy to use after misperceiving a sentence through lipreading. Strategies included asking the talker to repeat a sentence, rephrasing it, simplifying it, saying an important keyword, and speaking two sentences. Compared to controls, subjects demonstrated significantly greater…

Thirty-two normal-hearing adults rating their own lipreading performance produced self-ratings that did not correlate with actual performance. Experimental subjects who then received verbal encouragement subsequently gave themselves higher self-ratings of performance, even though actual lipreading performance did not improve. (JDD)

This study examined the effects of speechreading sentence perception across three speaker viewing angles: front view, quarter view, and side view. The performance of a female adult with postlingual hearing loss was measured at each angle. Results indicated that the side view angle was the most effective, though performance at the other angles was…

This preliminary study examined effects of word visibility and prime association factors on visual spoken word recognition in lipreading, using a related/unrelated prime-target paradigm with 20 hearing adults. In related prime-target pairings, more targets with a high than low prime association were identified. In unrelated prime-target pairings,…

IT IS HELD THAT ALTHOUGH PRESENT TUTORING TECHNIQUES IN LIPREADING FREQUENTLY ACHIEVE REMARKABLE RESULTS, THEY MIGHT BE BETTER UNDERSTOOD AND MADE MORE EFFECTIVE BY THE SYSTEMATIC APPLICATION OF LINGUISTIC CONCEPTS AND METHODS TO THE PROBLEMS INVOLVED. THE INVESTIGATION HAS BEEN CONCENTRATED ON A STUDY OF THE VISUAL PERCEPTIBILITY OF ENGLISH…

Goals and techniques for lipreading instruction with aurally handicapped adults are considered. (CL)

The factors of vowel consonant ratio and sentence length were examined to determine their relationship to the lipreading ability of 20 normal and 20 hearing impaired adults Ss. (Author/SBH)