Watch This Face: A Practical Guide to Lipreading - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1904296165 ISBN 13: 9781904296164

Publisher: The Royal National Institute for Deaf People (RNID, 2006

Synopsis

This book provides help and reassurance for deaf and hard of hearing people who want to learn to 'see the sound of speech'. It contains:
Guidance on enhancing your ability to communicate with others and improving your social skills and confidence.
Photographs of key lipshapes to learn and remember.
A wide variety of exercises to practise.
Common pitfalls and problem areas, to help you avoid making mistakes.
It can be used alone, with a friend, or with the TV and as a valuable back-up to lipreading classes, enabling you to improve your technique faster.

About this title

From the Back Cover

This book provides help and reassurance for deaf and hard of hearing people who want to learn to 'see the sound of speech'. It contains:
Guidance on enhancing your ability to communicate with others and improving your social skills and confidence.
Photographs of the key lipshapes to learn and remember.
A wide variety of exercises to practise.
Common pitfalls and problem areas, to help you avoid making mistakes.
It can be used alone, with a friend, or with the TV and as a valuable back-up to lipreading classes, enabling you to improve your technique faster.
I am very pleased to recommend this book. It is a useful guide for anyone interested in lipreading. - Patricia Sherren, Honorary Member, Association of Teachers of Lipreading to Adults (ATLA)

From the Inside Flap

Lipreading
Here is help and reassurance for anyone confronting hearing loss for the first time. At some point as we get older about a quarter of us ought to start using a hearing aid. But we won't get the best results from that alone and should combine it with lipreading. John Chaloner Woods was a firm advocate of lipreading classes, but for practice on our own with a mirror, with a friend or with the television, for those who can't get to classes or who want to experiment a little at first, this guide to 'seeing the sound of speech' will be the greatest help.
It is organised around a series of photographs of the lipshapes illustrating those sounds that can be shown as static pictures. They can often provide the key to a whole word for sentence. John Chaloner Woods explains how they can be used and built on most effectively. From his own experience of learning lipreading, he warns us of the likely pitfalls. He also provides a wide variety of material that we can practise in front of our mirrors or that others can speak to us, helping us to gain familiarity and confidence in seeing speech.
John Chaloner Woods was a 'graduate' of the lipreading classes held by the Inner London Education Authority (ILEA) and the City Lit Centre for Deaf People, London. This booklet is based on his original text in Lipreading - A Guide for Beginners, first published by RNID in 1986.

Edition details

• Publisher: The Royal National Institute for Deaf People (RNID
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1904296165
• ISBN 13: 9781904296164
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 112