An oral transliterator provides communication access to a person who is deaf or hard of hearing and who uses speechreading and speaking as a means of communicating. The oral transliterator, positioned in front of the speechreader, inaudibly repeats the spoken message, making it as speechreadable as possible. This is called Expressive Oral…

One of the ongoing challenges teachers of students who are deaf or hard of hearing face is managing the visual split attention implicit in multimedia learning. When a teacher presents various types of visual information at the same time, visual learners have no choice but to divide their attention among those materials and the teacher and…

Worldwide auditory-verbal education is becoming widespread for deaf children. But many prelingually, late-diagnosed deaf children and adults may utilize neither hearing aids nor cochlear implants and needed the support of lip-reading. Therefore, lip-reading skill remains to be important for oral education programmes of hearing impaired. The…

An oral transliterator provides communication access to a person who is deaf or hard of hearing and who uses speechreading and speaking as a means of communicating. The oral transliterator, positioned in front of the deaf person, inaudibly repeats the spoken message for the deaf person, making it as speechreadable as possible. This is called…

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…

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…

Primates, including humans, communicate using facial expressions, vocalizations and often a combination of the two modalities. For humans, such bimodal integration is best exemplified by speech-reading--humans readily use facial cues to enhance speech comprehension, particularly in noisy environments. Studies of the eye movement patterns of human…

There is a paucity of Vygotskian influenced inner speech research in relation to the reading process. Those few studies which have examined Vygotskian inner speech from a reading perspective tend to support the notion that inner speech is an important covert function that is crucial to the reading process and to reading acquisition in general.…

Three laser videodisc programs are described for training the communication skills of children and adults with hearing impairments. The programs are designed to provide analytic and synthetic speechreading practice and to encourage assertive communication behaviors. The report describes the training modules and test battery designed to assess the…

Illustrated are landmarks in the development of speechreading and its role in speech perception by individuals with impaired hearing. Covered are historical influences from 1450 to the present and issues in teaching/learning speechreading, such as the most effective unit of analysis for instruction and the impact of linguistic context. (JDD)

Prize winners in The First National Search for Applications to Aid the Handicapped are highlighted. First prize of $10,000 was presented to Dr. Harry Levitt, hearing and speech professor at the City University of New York. He programmed a TRS-80 Pocket Computer for rapid communication by the deaf over telephones. (MP)

The paper describes three intensive one-week classes concerning hearing impairment held by Gallaudet University through the Elderhostel program for people 60 years of age and older. The courses (Hearing Loss and Hearing Aids, Speechreading and Communication Strategies, and Psychosocial Aspects of Hearing Impairment) all include experiential labs.…

Oral interpretation is one means of helping hearing-impaired speechreaders in certain communication situations. This paper outlines the usefulness of oral interpretation and describes who can benefit from an oral interpreter, characteristics of an oral interpreter, alternatives to professional interpreters, methods of locating oral interpreters,…

This auditory training program used an analytic distinctive feature approach to attempt to improve consonant recognition in single syllable words through listening and speechreading practice. Two hundred exercises addressed 3 auditory features: voicing, nasality, and sibilancy. The Phoneme Identification Test showed no statistical change in 26…

An experiential speechreading course was designed to supplement traditional speechreading courses by providing 30 hearing-impaired college students with real-life communication experiences. The course increased student self-perceptions of communication success in real-life situations, compared to 30 control subjects. (Author/JDD)