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lip reading
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reading /read·ing/ (rēd´ing) understanding of written or printed symbols representing words.
lip reading , speech reading understanding of speech through observation of the speaker's lip movements.

lip reading.
reading [rēd´ing]
understanding of written or printed symbols representing words.
lip reading (speech reading) understanding of speech through observation of the speaker's lip movements.


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Increasingly, she relied upon speechreading to understand what others were saying to her.
Using the telecoil, telephone enhancements of one kind or another, a television listening system, and speechreading as much as possible are all going to be helpful.
However, speechreading performance was 97% correct when augmented with audible speech as tested at the word level with The Craig Lipreading Inventory (Craig, 1964/1990).
 
 
 
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