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Can deaf people just learn to lip read?

April 26, 2017deaf learn lip people read

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Can deaf people just learn to lip read?

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ANS: Lip reading is a skill. Some deaf people have a “natural” talent for lip reading; others can take a class to become better at it. Lip reading calls for the person trying to do it to fill in the blanks. The better educated a person is the better he can fill in the blank. He has a larger vocabulary. Still the best lip reader will only get maybe 65% of the conversation, the rest is “fill in the blank.” So many words look the same on the mouth. For example say the word paper then the word baby. Your lips move the very same way. It’s also very tiring to lip read.