Interesting thing happened at work.

[Daredevel7]

If you lipread well, would you prefer to use an oral transliterator/facilitator for the small meetings?

Yes, actually, I ask the terp who does the larger meetings to mouth the words too.

 

[Jiro]

If you lipread well, would you prefer to use an oral transliterator/facilitator for the small meetings?

is that different from ASL terp?

 

[TWA]

is that different from ASL terp?

Yes, someone basically sits directly in front of you and mouths all the words clearly so that you can lipread them. I've used it before. I didn't find it helpful because of the delay between sound and the words appearing on the mouth, since I lipread primarily by matching the sounds I can still hear to mouthshapes, so if there's a delay, it gets all messed up and confusing.

 

[Jiro]

Yes, someone basically sits directly in front of you and mouths all the words clearly so that you can lipread them. I've used it before. I didn't find it helpful because of the delay between sound and the words appearing on the mouth, since I lipread primarily by matching the sounds I can still hear to mouthshapes, so if there's a delay, it gets all messed up and confusing.

yuck.... good thing I'm learning ASL!