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lipreading

n. a method used by some people with hearing loss to understand spoken words in which the listener interprets the speaker’s lip movements. Some authorities claim that only about one third of speech sounds can be accurately read in this way and that attention to facial expression and general body language, with the additional use of sign language, assist significantly in comprehension. Also called speechreading.

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