Product Description
People with hearing loss sometimes remark that they hear better when they have their glasses on. This apparently humorous comment reflects an important truth -- that speech understanding can be improved by lipreading. Now, Sensimetrics Corporation of Somerville, MA, has released a new CD-ROM product that enables people with impaired hearing to learn and practice lipreading on home computers. SEEING AND HEARING SPEECH: Lessons in Lipreading and Listening exploits the powerful multimedia capabilities of personal computers to train users to combine lipreading with listening. The lessons present hundreds of common words and phrases at various levels of difficulty, all easily and quickly found or repeated. The lessons are organized into four groups: (1) Vowels, (2) Consonants, (3) Stress, Intonation, and Length, and (4) Everyday Communication, covering the combined sound and appearance of American English speech. Each lesson consists of six to twelve spoken wor... Click Here For More Info >>
Seeing and Hearing Speech: Lessons in Lipreading and Listening on CD-ROM

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