I have a question for you about lip reading. My son, who's now 5 years old, has a Cochlear implant in one ear and a hearing aid in the other. He's been deaf/hard of hearing since he was very young. I'd always suspected be could read lips, but he never really understood the the question when I asked him.
Anyway, we were watching a soccer game one day on mute with the subtitles on and he repeated what was being said during the manager's interview. He can read, but not that fast. I asked him how he knew what the manager said by how his mouth was moving. He said "Yes, I have a kind of hearing that other people don't have."
It's stuck with me because the way he phrased it made lip reading seem so fundamental, almost like when he read lips he was actually heard sounds.
I suppose my question is this, what is reading lips like for you? Is it this fundamental for you? Would you call it a different kind of "hearing"?
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I have a question for you about lip reading. My son, who's now 5 years old, has a Cochlear implant in one ear and a hearing aid in the other. He's been deaf/hard of hearing since he was very young. I'd always suspected be could read lips, but he never really understood the the question when I asked him.
Anyway, we were watching a soccer game one day on mute with the subtitles on and he repeated what was being said during the manager's interview. He can read, but not that fast. I asked him how he knew what the manager said by how his mouth was moving. He said "Yes, I have a kind of hearing that other people don't have."
It's stuck with me because the way he phrased it made lip reading seem so fundamental, almost like when he read lips he was actually heard sounds.
I suppose my question is this, what is reading lips like for you? Is it this fundamental for you? Would you call it a different kind of "hearing"?
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