IT IS HELD THAT ALTHOUGH PRESENT TUTORING TECHNIQUES IN LIPREADING FREQUENTLY ACHIEVE REMARKABLE RESULTS, THEY MIGHT BE BETTER UNDERSTOOD AND MADE MORE EFFECTIVE BY THE SYSTEMATIC APPLICATION OF LINGUISTIC CONCEPTS AND METHODS TO THE PROBLEMS INVOLVED. THE INVESTIGATION HAS BEEN CONCENTRATED ON A STUDY OF THE VISUAL PERCEPTIBILITY OF ENGLISH…

Goals and techniques for lipreading instruction with aurally handicapped adults are considered. (CL)

The factors of vowel consonant ratio and sentence length were examined to determine their relationship to the lipreading ability of 20 normal and 20 hearing impaired adults Ss. (Author/SBH)

Sixth in a series of articles based on Parent Teacher Conferences held between 1966-69 in the Lower Department of Junior High School 47, New York City's Public School for the Deaf. The article suggests how parents of deaf children can assist their child in his process of learning to lipread. (Author/KW)

The speechreading performance of 22 hearing impaired students (mean age 6.3 years) was analyzed to determine differences in performance acros word, phrase, and sentence stimuli. Ss speechread words more easily than sentences or phrases. (CL)

The study demonstrates that, with a brief training period, deaf adolescents (N=8) can attain a high level of perceptual performance with a tactual speech system in discrimination of certain hard to lipread word pairs pronounced by both a male and a female speaker. (Author/SBH)

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.…

The article reviews a study of interactions among deaf children, their parents and teachers which points out the need for developing early and ongoing contact with the deaf community. It is stressed that English and American Sign Language be given equal status in the classroom. (CL)

Research shows that appropriate gestures, either discrete or continuous, substantially enhance speechreading performance and that inappropriate gestures reduce speechreading performance. (Author/KW)

Validity and reliability of a videotaped speechreading test, "Eyes and Spoken Language," designed to assess how effectively a person utilizes linguistic constraints in responding to spoken language via the visual pathway, were established using responses of 68 nonhearing impaired young adults. A significant learning effect was…

Articulation and two speechreading tests were administered to 42 hearing impaired adults before and after individualized speech therapy to study the effect of speech training on speechreading and relationships between consonant production and recognition. Analysis of pre/postscores revealed significant improvement in both production and…

The speechreading performance of 50 adults (ages 20-69) with normal hearing and vision was evaluated. Findings indicated that females showed significantly higher speechreading scores than males, that females improved their performance significantly over the 2 trials (unlike males), and that females in their 30s had the best performance and males…