There have been claims that hearing people do not speechread. The end goal of AVT is to make a deaf kid "function" like a hearing kid with no speechreading, as it's seen as a "crutch". Check out this article: Infants May Lip Read to Learn Speech - ABC News
Gee, I thought speechreading was a crutch! LOL.......
."Language is not just an auditory process, it is the integration of visual and auditory information as the child learns words," said Stephen Camarata, professor of hearing and speech sciences at Vanderbilt University. "What happens in infancy has important ramifications for later development
Gee, I thought speechreading was a crutch! LOL.......