Speechreading: A Way to Improve Understanding

By Harriet Kaplan, Scott Bally, Carol Garretson

Book Overview

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 ofthese 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0930323327
• ISBN13: 9780930323325
• Release Date: June 1985
• Publisher: Gallaudet University Press
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.5" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

It has great activities for working with anyone

I've used this book for over 10 years with my students (both who are oral and who use sign language) who want to improve their ability to interact with hearing communication partners. A great book!

Improve your ability to read lips, Oral Method

This book is intended to help in Oral Transliteration. I read this text for an OT course several years ago, and I still find myself using some of the principles regularly. This book, I am sure, would help in any OT professional use or OT certification. I never had a chance to take that certification exam, but I bet it wouldn't hurt. I feel that it would help anyone who communicates with someone who is hard of hearing or...

Excellent resource!!

Subject presented concisely...easy to understand. Simple.Offers relevant information on a variety of approaches to speechreading. Details the benefits of each method and outlines factors crucial to successful communication.Highly recommended. Superb resource for those training to work as oral transliterators and recommended reading for those preparing for certification!