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Even the best lip-readers are only able to understand approximately 30% to 40% of what is actually said on the lips.<\/p>– Science Direct: Lipreading, Patients with Disabilities<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

When I saw the statistics on lipreading, I was shocked. Approximately only 30-40% of words are able to be lipread on the lips. How could this be? As a deaf woman myself, I knew that I definitely got a lot more than this overall in my daily conversations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I started paying more attention to the meta of lipreading, and you know what? I noticed that I take in and access a lot of information in the intense energy and focus I expend on lipreading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lips, body language, lips, facial patterns, lips, knowledge of the context, lips, eye movements, lips, familiar phrases and language patterns, lips, familiar lip patterns, lips, familiar people, lips, predictive behaviour, lips, hangman, lips, automatic brain processes without thinking, lips.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My eyes are feeling tense already, just thinking about the extent of this information. How in the world am I doing this and am still able to piece together a conversation in real time, AND think a reply, voice a reply, AND access all the memorised speech training so I am saying it properly. Crikey. Maybe my intelligence and brain power is coming to bat for me in ways I have taken for granted my entire life. No time to think about poor me in a hearing world. The conversation just moves too quickly and I gotta keep up or be left out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And left out I am. It especially happens in group situations. I get bored and stop trying so hard because trying is not getting me anywhere much in groups. I can understand the 30-40% statistic in these cases! I get 30% if I am lucky!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keep this in mind next time you communicate with a deaf person. Lipreading ability varies across the deaf population, and even for these people who are excellent lipreaders\u2026 we cannot lipread in a way that will guarantee the same accessibility to a conversation a hearing person would have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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