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Lip-Reading Challenges In The Hearing World
Having to verbally “translate” for signing deaf friends who do not lip-read, confirmed this skill to Rachel Kolb, a masters student at Stanford University in California. She writes eloquently here, about the challenges of lip-reading. Read: Seeing At The Speed Of Sound In a TEDxStanford talk (June 2013), Rachel Kolb talked of being deaf in a hearing world,
Lipreading: The Challenges And Benefits (Part 1)
Everyone lipreads to an extent regardless of their hearing, to get a sense of what people are saying to us. Deaf and hard-of-hearing people can rely almost fully on lip-reading, as they may not have the sound input to know what others are saying to them, or to follow a conversation. Charlie Swinbourne, a deaf writer
eBook: Teaching A Deaf Child To Hear And Speak
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