0 to understand what someone is saying by watching the movements of their mouth --
1 to understand what someone is saying by watching the movements of the mouth --
She was fitted with hearing aids aged four and has never learned sign language, relying on lip-reading to complete the sound picture.
Without auditory input, a person with prelingual deafness is forced to acquire speech visually through lip-reading.
However, they often rely on lip-reading even when they are using hearing aids.
In the 1960s, there was a big fight between all those educators who wanted only lip-reading taught in schools-no sign language.
As a child he lost his hearing due to disease, thus finding it necessary to lip-read from an early age.
A deaf pupil who enters an ordinary tutorial has not only to lip-read, but has to try to follow the thread of a very involved argument.
I can lip-read perfectly from great distances.
They can lip-read and understand what is said to them, and they are able to speak quite normally by the time they have finished their training.
