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LIP‐READING BY DEAF AND HEARING CHILDREN
Author(s) -
CONRAD R.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
british journal of educational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.557
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 2044-8279
pISSN - 0007-0998
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8279.1977.tb03001.x
Subject(s) - psychology , audiology , reading (process) , test (biology) , significant difference , developmental psychology , linguistics , medicine , paleontology , philosophy , biology
S ummary . A group of profoundly deaf 15‐year‐old subjects with no other handicap and of average non‐verbal intelligence were given a lip‐reading test. The same test was given to comparable hearing subjects ‘deafened’ by white noise masking. The difference between the groups was not significant. Performance of the deaf subjects (and the hearing) was, however, significantly better when they read the test items from print. The implication is that the relatively poor lip‐reading ability of the deaf subjects was not because of linguistic impairment.