Giving Good Lip for Better Speechreading
Phonemes, visemes and homophenes. Try saying that 10 times real fast. Really – try it! If you’re like me, after the second repetition, it comes out all jumbled. Which is very ironic for people with hearing loss because these three terms relate to issues of speechreading, which all of us do to some degree in…
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The Amazingness of Hearing Loss
A human being is an amazing creature, capable of amazing things: we can think, talk, see, hear, feel pleasure and pain, show compassion, move forwards-backwards-sideways and, as the advertisements say, so much, much more. Perfect people would operate flawlessly on this scale of amazingness – but do such people really exist? Surely even the most…
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