What is it about?
The ability to combine speech information from listening and seeing a talker is important for speech understanding in noisy social situations. But many adults are poor lipreaders, and some researchers have thought that lipreading training cannot be successful. We showed that when adults are given the correct type of feedback during training, they can learn to lipread more accurately and can generalize their learning to untrained noisy audiovisual speech stimuli.
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Why is it important?
Our findings may be applied in addressing the difficulties that people with hearing loss experience in noisy social situations. Their difficulties often drive them away from social interactions, contributing to reduction in their quality of life and health. Training to improve lipreading may help to ameliorate their difficulties.
Perspectives
My co-authors and I are excited by these results. We are applying our results in new research on speech recognition training in adults with hearing loss. We are hoping that audiologists and other professionals who provide services to adults with hearing loss encourage their clients to seek out opportunities to obtain lipreading training in order to improve their speech recognition in noisy social situations.
Lynne Bernstein
George Washington University
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This page is a summary of: During Lipreading Training With Sentence Stimuli, Feedback Controls Learning and Generalization to Audiovisual Speech in Noise, American Journal of Audiology, March 2022, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA),
DOI: 10.1044/2021_aja-21-00034.
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