title: Auditory-visual perception of speech.
abstract: Hearing-impaired persons usually perceive speech by watching the face of the talker while listening through a hearing aid. Normal-hearing persons also tend to rely on visual cues, especially when they communicate in noisy or reverberant environments. Numerous clinical and laboratory studies on the auditory-visual performance of normal-hearing and hearing-impaired children and adults demonstrate that combined auditory-visual perception is superior to perception through either audition or vision alone. This paper reviews these studies and provides a rationale for routine evaluation of auditory-visual speech perception in audiology clinics.
mesh_terms: D001307:Auditory Perception; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006801:Humans; D008085:Lipreading; D010700:Phonetics; D013060:Speech; D014796:Visual Perception