Teaching lip-reading: the efficacy of lessons on video.
Studies of the efficacy of filmed and videotaped materials for lip-reading self instruction have provided encouraging results. The recent increase in private ownership of VCRs allows widespread home use of video lessons for improving lip-reading skills. Such an approach is particularly, useful for hearing-impaired adults who have no access to lip-reading classes. To fill this need in Australia a 3-hour video cassette of nine lip-reading lessons was produced. The video lessons were tested over a period of 5 weeks. The study showed a significant improvement in the lip-reading skill of students who studied the video cassette compared to a control group who did not. The extent of improvement did not differ for students who studied the video in a class, at home, or as supplementary teaching material. While the age and sex of the subjects did not influence improvement of lip-reading skills, the study showed greater improvement for the relatively poorer lip-readers. More detailed testing of one group of students showed generalization of lip-reading skills to unfamiliar speakers and materials.
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Speech Hearing and Language Research Centre, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Plant
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Gregory
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D000328:Adult; D003638:Deafness / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D005793:Generalization, Psychological; D006317:Hearing Loss, Noise-Induced / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D006801:Humans; D008085:Lipreading; D008875:Middle Aged; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D011380:Programmed Instructions as Topic; D014743:Videotape Recording