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Speechreading: A Way to Improve Understanding

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Harriet Kaplan, Scott J. Bally, and Carol Garretson
1987
Published by: Gallaudet University Press
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Speechreading: A Way to Improve Understanding discusses the nature and process of speechreading, its benefits, and its limitations. This useful book clarifies commonly-held misconceptions about speechreading. The beginning chapters address difficult communication situations and problems related to the speaker, the speechreader, and the environment. It then offers strategies to manage them. Speechreading provides practical exercises illustrating the use of these communication strategies in actual situations. It is an excellent book for late-deafened adults, families and friends, parents of children with hearing loss, and professionals and students.

Table of Contents

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Contents

pp. iii

Preface

pp. v-vi

Acknowledgments

pp. vii

Introduction

pp. ix-xiii

1. Principles of Speechreading

pp. 1-7

2. Limitations of Speechreading

pp. 8-14

3. Visibility and Homopheneity

pp. 15-19

4. Communication Strategies

pp. 20-35

5. Practical Exercises in Communication Strategies

pp. 36-89

6. Speechreading Tests and Methods

pp. 90-100

7. Speechreading Exercises

pp. 101-140

References

pp. 141-143

Additional Readings

pp. 143-144

Index

pp. 145-148
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