[stylist] reading lips

[helene ryles]

Judith: Profoundly deaf doesn't always mean totally deaf. Some
profoundly deaf can hear environmental noises with powerful hearing
aids. I could if I chose as I do have some hearing in my right ear,
but I also have recruitment so I choose to use a vibrating device to
alert me to noise instead.
My friend who is profoundly deaf who does lipread does say that a lot
of her childhood was taken over with speach therapy and she was denied
signing. She learnt to sign as an adult and she feels she has
benifited a lot from learning to sign.
She had a brother who is also profoundly deaf. They tried to get him
to speak and lip read for 5 years before giving it up as a lost cause
and sending him to deaf school.
She teaches at a deaf school so she also gets a lot of kids who come
to her having failed lipreading who weren't taught sign language and
can't write either.

I have nothing against deaf learning to lipread. I'm for a full tool
box apraoch. Learn everything that's going and drop whatever isn't so
useful later on. You would need to understand deaf history of how so
many deaf were denied signing in an effort to force them to speak.
That includes corprol punishement too when oralism was at it's hight,
and they really did try to force deafblind to understand speech using
the tandoma method. As a result of that it's gone completely wheras I
think it may have been useful for me when I stopped being able to
lipread visually, instead of giving me mega powerful hearing aids
which are responsible for my aversion to noise as an adult.

Helene

On 17/11/2009, Judith Bron <jbron at optonline.net> wrote:
> A friend of my friend's daughter is profoundly deaf.  She was born that way.
> She is best friends with my friend's daughter who never had this disability.
> One day I was in the library (don't ask me why) and I heard, "Mrs. Bron."  I
> looked around and this girl saw me looking and said, "It's Channah.  I'm
> over here."  I heard where she was and went over to her. I was able to say
> hello, how are you etc and she understood me.  She said, "I'm here for a
> class project."  This girl, now married with her own family, had been
> mainstreamed as a small child and did very well in school.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "helene ryles" <dreamavdb at googlemail.com>
> To: "Writer's Division Mailing List" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 2:52 PM
> Subject: Re: [stylist] reading lips
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>
> Lori,
> You are right that for a completely deaf person to rely exclusively on
> lipreading is not realistic. Most people who lipreading do have
> hearing although some have very little of it. I know a woman with a
> profound loss who lipreads but she says without her hearing aids she
> can't lipread so well. That's because only about 20 per cent of what
> is said can be seen on the lips. HOH people can combine their limited
> hearing with lipreading skills so they can be quite good at it but
> most lipreaders do have some useful hearing to go by.
>
> As for teaching hearing children signing, there is something called
> baby signs. Some parents of hearing babies have found that their
> babies can learn to communicate through sign before they learn through
> speach. I'm all for it.
>
> There is another way for a deaf and a hearing child to communicate
> though and that is via pen and paper.
>
> Helene
>
> On 17/11/2009, LoriStay at aol.com <LoriStay at aol.com> wrote:
>> An option is the way to go.   I took two sign courses at Helen Keller
>> (National Center for the Deaf/blind), but because I have no place to
>> practice,
>> had to let it go.
>> Lori
>> In a message dated 11/16/09 6:12:26 PM, jbron at optonline.net writes:
>>
>>
>>> I feel badly that not all deaf people can read lips. However, should we
>>> make sign language a mandatory course for all American students? I don't
>>> think so. You can have it available as an option, but it shouldn't be
>>> mandatory.
>>>
>>
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