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Hope Lanter explains how you naturally lip read without realizing it. Infants learn speech by watching mouths, and as hearing declines, people rely more on visual cues from lip movements to understand words. Everyone does this to some degree.
Hope Lanter explains how you naturally lip read without realizing it. Infants learn speech by watching mouths, and as hearing declines, people rely more on visual cues from lip movements to understand words. Everyone does this to some degree.
You want to know something I know about you? You're a lip reader. What? You said no? Yes, you are. How do I know this? Well, the way you learned to talk as a baby was by watching other people's mouths move and their lips. So what did you learn? Dada or mama is because you can see it on the lips and babies will often mimic that to learn to talk. So we've done that from the very, very beginning. As hearing loss starts to creep in, we start doing it again in a much more major and direct way. So with that, you may be saying, "Okay, did that person say mall or tall?" And if you can look at their mouth moving, you can now create a visual cue that can help you to piece together something you may not have heard in that word. So with that, Yes, you are a lip reader. You may be better than others or you may be worse than others, but you're a lip reader.
