Quotes About Lipreading

Even for a child, the major component of lipreading is guesswork. It's often said that only 30 to 40 percent of lipreading is actual "reading" of each word; the rest is "context guessing" to fill in the gaps between the words that are actually understood.

I can't read lips.

The oralists believe in speaking and lipreading without ever signing; and the manualists are pro-signing in American Sign Language (ASL).

Like virtually all schools for the deaf at that time, the Indiana State School emphasized oral skills: speaking and lipreading.