From: Karen.Keil@hnews.fidonet.org (Karen Keil)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: Lipreading
Date: 13 Apr 92 20:54:40 GMT
Reply-To: Karen.Keil@hnews.fidonet.org
Organization: The Handicap News, Shelton CT (203) 337-1607

Index Number: 21043

[This is from the Silent Talk Conference]

JD  I noticed that I began to depend on my ability to read lips
JD  at my work
JD  after I took the sign courses....I worked in a very noisey
JD  place
JD  (machine shop) and I almost got to the point that I was
JD  asking people to
JD  look directly at me so I could "hear" what they said.
JD  I can imagine the WORK it takes to sucessfully read lips...I
JD  can do a
JD  little (with people who speak clearly and look directly at
JD  me, but BOY!
JD  do I miss a lot!) My friend used to (as he called it) "turn
JD  off his
JD  voice" for me and it really helped. Thanks for the
JD  information I really
JD  appreciate it! Are there special names to the classes in
JD  which this is
JD  taught?

That is really interesting that you fell into lipreading your
co-workers in the very noisy environment.  It seems we fall back on
other senses when one sense wouldn't work for a situation.

As to 'special names' to the classes in which lipreading is
taught...well, there doesn't seem to be any special terms.
'Lipreading' and 'speechreading' are the same term for the skill of
reading the lips/face.

The Alexander Graham Bell Association catalog has items such as:

1.  What People Say.  (book)  by Kathryn A. Ordman and Mary Pauline
Ralli.  An update of the classic Nitchie School Course in
Lipreading.  136 pp.  $10.95

2.  Lipreading Made Easy by Audrey B. Greenwald, M.S., CCC.  (book)
A photo-primer written to 'satisfy a specific unfilled need...the
need for easy practice-at-home material for people who want to learn
the basics of lipreading.  32 pp. $13.95

3.  Lipreading Made Easy videotape.  Can be used with the book above
or independently.  2 hours 15 min.  VHS format.  $75.00

4.  Speech Reading:  An Aid to Communication by Joan Good Erickson.
'Provides the hearing rehabilitation professional with 24 unit-based
speech reading lessons and numerous suggestions for others.....This
stresses the use of anticipatory and relevant informational cues as
well as the visual cues....In addition to presenting basic rules for
the beginning speech reader and directions for using the workbook, a
list of resources for hearing-impaired adults is included...may be
used for home practice.'  73 pp. $10.00

5.  Read My Lips!  Videotape Series (6 tapes). Can be bought
separately or as a set.  Goes from basic to complex situations.  VHS
format.  $185.00 for whole set.

6.  Speechreading Tapes Developed at the National Technical
Institute for the Deaf at RIT.
11 tapes.  Appropriate for both individual and group instruction.
Each videotape has several worksheets allowing individual work at
own pace.  A separte workbook plus a copy of SPEECHREADING
STRATEGIES by Marjorie Jacobs and E. William Clymer comes with each
tape.  Available singly or as a set.

There follows a description of each tape but won't type this here
except for the titles...
#1  Survivial Sentences  $75.00
#2  Survivial Sentences   "
#3  Survivial Sentences
and so on to tape 7 for different situations.
Tapes 8 thru 11 are ON THE JOB SOCIAL SENTENCES.

All are $75.00 each or $750.00 for the whole set plus a bonus gift
of a classroom instruction Manual.

Realizing that this is far more, more, more than what you asked for
in your questions about special terms.....but just wanted to give
you an idea of the area.

As for classes to go to, offhand I'm not aware of any, but schools,
universities and hospitals might be offering them.

Yes, lipreading is work and takes lots of patience and strength.
BUT I'm not sorry that I learned to lipread....well, the choice was
made for me by my parents...or rather..the professionals they went
to for help after my hearing loss was confirmed.  It's a good skill
to have in my toolbox.

My mother asked me if I ever wished that I went the other way and
became part of the deaf world instead of the hearing one, and I said
no, but I think I would be more isolated from my own relatives if
they did not sign and I could communicate by sign only.  Actually,
no matter where one chooses to go, there's always some isolation in
one way or another.  I'm straddling the fence between both worlds
and can participate only partially in either one.  Oops...sorry for
wandering off the subject!

By the way, my aunt and uncle used to live in Alaska, too, in
Fairbanks.  I have never been up there, unfortunately.

So long for now! :-)

Karen

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