Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The process of comprehending spoken words by watching the speaker's lips, as taught to deaf-mutes.
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Examples
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Sebastián-Gallés, and J.F. Werker, 2007, “Discriminating languages by speech-reading,” Perception and Psychophysics, 69 (2): 218.
Auditory Perception O'Callaghan, Casey 2009
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-- Speech and speech-reading, together with writing, are made the chief means of instruction, and facility in speech and speech-reading, as well as mental development and written language, is aimed at.
The Deaf Their Position in Society and the Provision for Their Education in the United States Harry Best
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The inestimable value of speech-reading and the practicability of its acquisition under favorable conditions is a matter of common experience and observation but justice to the deaf requires a recognition of the fact that speech-reading has its limitations.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 530, February 27, 1886 Various
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This adjunct to speech-reading is recommended for its convenience, clearness, rapidity, and ease in colloquial use, as well as for its value as an educational instrument in impressing words, phrases, and sentences in their spelled form upon the mind, in testing the comprehension of children, and in affording by easy steps a substitute for the sign-language.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 530, February 27, 1886 Various
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In articulation and speech-reading instruction, the power to assist a class without distracting the attention of the eye from the vocal organs of the teacher.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886 Various
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Speech and speech-reading are taught where the measure of success seems likely to justify the labor expended, and in most of the schools some of the pupils are taught wholly or chiefly by the Oral Method or the
The Deaf Their Position in Society and the Provision for Their Education in the United States Harry Best
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There is a difference in the different schools in the extent to which the use of natural signs is allowed in the early part of the course, and also in the prominence given to writing as an auxiliary to speech and speech-reading in the course of instruction; but they are differences only in degree, and the end aimed at is the same in all.
The Deaf Their Position in Society and the Provision for Their Education in the United States Harry Best
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It would be nearest the truth to say that they are "taught articulation," or that they are instructed by the use of speech and speech-reading.
The Deaf Their Position in Society and the Provision for Their Education in the United States Harry Best
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-- Speech and speech-reading are regarded as very important, but mental development and the acquisition of language are regarded as still more important.
The Deaf Their Position in Society and the Provision for Their Education in the United States Harry Best
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What advantage is there, not found in the prevailing methods of communication with the deaf, i.e., by gestures, dactylology, speech and speech-reading, and writing?
Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886 Various
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