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Lipreading in the Prelingually Deaf: What makes a Skilled Speechreader?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 April 2014

Isabel de los Reyes Rodríguez Ortiz
Isabel de los Reyes Rodríguez Ortiz*
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Universidad de Sevilla (Spain)
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Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Isabel Rodríguez Ortiz, Departamento de Psicología Evolutiva y de la Educación, Facultad de Psicología, C/Camilo José Cela, s/n, 41018. Sevilla (Spain). E-mail: ireyes@us.es
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Abstract

Lipreading proficiency was investigated in a group of hearing-impaired people, all of them knowing Spanish Sign Language (SSL). The aim of this study was to establish the relationships between lipreading and some other variables (gender, intelligence, audiological variables, participants' education, parents' education, communication practices, intelligibility, use of SSL). The 32 participants were between 14 and 47 years of age. They all had sensorineural hearing losses (from severe to profound). The lipreading procedures comprised identification of words in isolation. The words selected for presentation in isolation were spoken by the same talker. Identification of words required participants to select their responses from set of four pictures appropriately labelled. Lipreading was significantly correlated with intelligence and intelligibility. Multiple regression analyses were used to obtain a prediction equation for the lipreading measures. As a result of this procedure, it is concluded that proficient deaf lipreaders are more intelligent and their oral speech was more comprehensible for others.

Se estudió el dominio de la labiolectura en personas sordas usuarias de la lengua de signos española. El objetivo era establecer las relaciones entre la lectura labiofacial y otras variables (género, inteligencia, variables audiológicas, nivel educativo del sujeto y de los padres, prácticas comunicativas, inteligibilidad de su habla y uso de la lengua de signos española). Los 32 sujetos de la muestra tenían edades comprendidas entre los 14 y los 47 años. Todos tenían pérdidas auditivas neurosensoriales (de severas a profundas). El procedimiento para evaluar la lectura labiofacial se basaba en la identificación de palabras aisladas. Estas palabras fueron emitidas siempre por el mismo evaluador. La identificación de las palabras se hacía a través de la selección entre cuatro alternativas. La lectura labiofacial correlacionó de manera significativa con la inteligencia y la inteligibilidad del habla. Se empleó un análisis de regresión múltiple para obtener una ecuación que permitiera predecir las puntuaciones en lectura labiofacial. Como resultado de este procedimiento se observó que los mejores labiolectores sordos fueron aquellos que eran más inteligentes y tenían un habla más inteligible.

Keywords

lipreadingprelingually deafdeafnessoral speechlectura labiofacialprelocutivossorderalengua oral
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The Spanish Journal of Psychology , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , November 2008 , pp. 488 - 502
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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