Under both the audition alone and combined audition and lipreading conditions, Ss' performance was superior to that previously reported for profoundly hearing impaired children trained in schools in which a "multisensory" approach is typically used. (Author)

The Australian study investigated the effect of cued speech on the speech reception abilities of 18 profoundly hearing impaired children under seven conditions of presentation: audition; lipreading; audition and lipreading; cues; audition and cues; lipreading and cues; and audition, lipreading, and cues. (Author)