speech reading
Visual listening method
Speech reading is understanding spoken language by watching a speaker's lip movements, facial expressions, and gestures rather than relying on hearing.
The term is preferred over lip reading in deaf and hard-of-hearing communities because it acknowledges that comprehension involves the whole face and body, not just the lips: She became skilled at speech reading after losing her hearing.
- lipreadingInterpreting spoken words visually
- deafUnable to hear
- hard of hearingReduced auditory ability
- hearing lossReduced ability to perceive sound
- mouthOral opening
lips · visual · visual cues · communication · sign language · body language · cues · facial · expression · speechreading · auditory · impaired · silent · gestures · interpretation · phonemes · consonants · vowels
speech readingspeaking
Oral expression of language
verbal expression · talking · articulation · utterance · vocalization
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