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…

Revised CID Everyday Sentence Lists were evaluated for list equivalency when received through speechreading. Results revealed that Harris's revised sentence lists cannot be considered equivalent on the basis of a +/- 10 percent criterion. Clinicians may find the sentences useful, however, for evaluation of training techniques with groups of…

The relationship of initial speechreading performance scores to final performance scores following shortterm training was determined for 30 normal-hearing, sighted adults. Results indicated a highly significant linear relationship between pre- and posttest scores. Ss with higher pretest scores tended to have a greater increase in performance than…

Low positive correlation between sentence familiarity and lipreading values was found when deaf college students were used to determine quantitative sentence familiarity and lipreading values of the John Tracy Clinic Filmed Test of Lipreading. (Author/KW)

The study compared the speechreading performance of 22 deaf children (average age 6 years) to that of normal hearing children. The normal hearing children may have been assisted by the visible aspects of words while the deaf children seemed to be influenced solely by language structure. (Author)

Synthetic speech-like articulations were presented to normal hearing adult subjects (N=13) via the visual modality with computer generated animations. Results indicated that most subjects categorically labeled the animations of speech articulations with sharp transitions between phonemic categories. Results have implications for speechreading.…

Discusses how listeners compensate for coarticulatory influences of one speech sound on another and examines whether lipread information penetrates this perceptual compensation mechanism. Results of three experiments indicate that biasing of the fricative by lipread information and compensation for coarticulation can be dissociated. (Author/VWL)

Purpose: L. E. Bernstein, M. E. Demorest, and P. E. Tucker (2000) demonstrated enhanced speechreading accuracy in participants with early-onset hearing loss compared with hearing participants. Here, the authors test the generalization of Bernstein et al.'s (2000) result by testing 2 new large samples of participants. The authors also investigated…

Reading and speechreading are both visual skills based on speech and language processing. Here we explore individual differences in speechreading in profoundly prelingually deaf adults, hearing adults with a history of dyslexia, and hearing adults with no history of a literacy disorder. Speechreading skill distinguished the three groups: the deaf…

A reevaluation of a previous study which found a significant improvement in speechreading scores of 15 normal hearing adults following a word-scoring training intervention found that, though subjects increased verbal output and mean length of utterance, they did not improve sentence comprehension, syntactic correctness, or overall response…

The effects of consonantal context on vowel lipreading were assessed for 30 adult males with mild-to-moderate sensorineural hearing loss who lipread videotape recordings of two female talkers. Results indicated that vowel intelligibility was significantly poorer in most contexts involving highly visible consonants. (Author/DB)

Results of a survey to document the character, extent, and effectiveness of Tadoma training (a means of teaching speechreading and speech production using vibrotactile information) and use in the United States and Canada are presented. (Author/CL)

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…