title: Some normative data on lip-reading skills (L).
abstract: The ability to obtain reliable phonetic information from a talker's face during speech perception is an important skill. However, lip-reading abilities vary considerably across individuals. There is currently a lack of normative data on lip-reading abilities in young normal-hearing listeners. This letter describes results obtained from a visual-only sentence recognition experiment using CUNY sentences and provides the mean number of words correct and the standard deviation for different sentence lengths. Additionally, the method for calculating T-scores is provided to facilitate the conversion between raw and standardized scores. This metric can be utilized by clinicians and researchers in lip-reading studies. This statistic provides a useful benchmark for determining whether an individual's lip-reading score falls within the normal range, or whether it is above or below this range.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, The University of Oklahoma, 3100 Monitor Avenue, 2 Partners Place, Suite 280, Norman, Oklahoma 73072, USA. nick.altieri@ou.edu
authors.forename: Nicholas A
authors.initials: NA
authors.lastname: Altieri
authors.forename: David B
authors.initials: DB
authors.lastname: Pisoni
authors.forename: James T
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Townsend
mesh_terms: D003463:Cues; D006801:Humans; D008085:Lipreading; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D021641:Recognition, Psychology; D012016:Reference Values; D013067:Speech Perception; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis