Would You Want To Read Lips?

Would You Like To Read Lips/Hear?

  • Yes

    Votes: 1 12.5%

  • No

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Undecided

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • I Can Already Read Lips/Hear

    Votes: 7 87.5%
  • Total voters
    8
I'm glad I won't ever be able to lipread. Too much added pressure. I already spend so much energy trying to hear things right I wouldn't have any left for lip-reading.
 
I apologize if I were breaking the rules. I had no idea I could not post surveys, and this is not "homework". A debate started if deaf people wanted to learn how read lips or if it was something they did not want to do.

If this were homework/project then I could do a search to analyize all the posts regarding lip reading, but since it's not I figured why not post a poll to get quick results.

Thank you to those who are inputing their thoughts and i wish these sort of polls was allowed as I would really like to know personally if there is more deaf people who want to lip read than those who don't.
 
corneliusw said:
I apologize if I were breaking the rules. I had no idea I could not post surveys, and this is not "homework". A debate started if deaf people wanted to learn how read lips or if it was something they did not want to do.

If this were homework/project then I could do a search to analyze all the posts regarding lip reading, but since it's not I figured why not post a poll to get quick results.

Thank you to those who are inputing their thoughts and i wish these sort of polls was allowed as I would really like to know personally if there is more deaf people who want to lip read than those who don't.
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well, I rather not learn lipread. I personally like to live in a SL society if I could but that's not a reality.

Most of us here grew up being oral, mainstreamed. Some of us are profoundly deaf or severe hard of hearing too. And some ended up learning ASL later in life. the truth is, most of us can't learn to read lip without assistance of hearing aids. And we can't understand what is said to us without lipreading. I call this speechreading. Speechreading is communication with body language, sounds using the tool you have (hearing aids), and lipread combined. I was trained to do speechreading and I can't understand without one of each. It's overwhelming and I keep asking the person to repeat himself because I didn't understand. Spoken language will never be convenience for me.

bilingual is what I really prefer -- spoken language (with speech-reading) and sign language.
 
btw, trying to get deaf people to read lips without sounds (without hearing aids or Cochlear Implant) is very torturous in my opinion. It take us back to the generation where they made deaf people learn to speak without sign language (the days that hearing aids and implants didn't exist). that's why I said you can't really learn to lipread without any hearing assistance.
 
My learning to lipread was a necessity due to my diminishing hearing loss. I'm glad I learned it now that I am total deaf, but it is not easy. I get about three out of every ten words. Not very good. For that reason, I rely on pen and paper.
 
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