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)

Experiment I showed that hearing subjects outperformed deaf subjects on a lipreading task, possibly because they could supplement lip-read stimuli with stored auditory information. Experiment II demonstrated that sighted subjects did not use stored visual information to supplement auditory input, for they performed no differently from congenitally…

This study investigated the practice effect in speechreading. Two groups of 10 hearing and sighted adults practiced either the same sentence list each day or practiced on different lists each day for 5 days. While both groups showed noteworthy improvements in speechreading, no significant differences between groups were found. (Author/PB)

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,…

A newly developed, computer-based, videodisc instructional program to teach speechreading skills was evaluated using 74 hearing college students. The program provides users with practice in speechreading words, sentences, and stories presented by over 150 people. Results indicated a significant improvement in speechreading ability from pretest to…

Twenty-four hearing-impaired subjects (mean age 67 years) were tested for lipreading skills under 3 conditions (full face, eyes masked, only lips visible). Results show no significant association between facial visibility and lipreading ability. Results are interpreted in the context of the phonological and semantic components of speech.…

Compared spelling performance of hearing and deaf 6- to 14- year-olds on high- and low-frequency words. Found that most spelling productions of hearing children and deaf children with early intensive home cued speech (CS) exposure were phonologically accurate for both types of words. Deaf children with later CS exposure at school had lower…

To evaluate the effects of Cued Speech (visual symbols) as a supplement to speechreading, cued and non-cued sentences and phrases were presented in a live situation at normal and at slow rates to 12 hearing-impaired subjects (7-to 11-years-old). (Author/LS)

Three hundred and six 8mm cartridge-type films were produced to provide deaf children instruction in and practice with noun vocabulary, question forms, prepositions, and speechreading. Films were placed in 12 classes. Method of presentation and time spent was determined by individual teachers, most of whom had attended a three-day orientation…