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SUMMARY:The relationship between speechreading and reading in deaf childre
 n: outcomes from an RCT - Dr Mairead MacSweeney\, Institute of Cognitive N
 euroscience\, UCL
DTSTART:20160310T153000Z
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CONTACT:Deborah McSkimming
DESCRIPTION:Speechreading (lipreading) is the ability to understand speech
  in the absence of sound. For most deaf people\, speechreading is the prim
 ary route to access spoken language.  Longitudinal studies have provided e
 vidence for the importance of speechreading (lipreading) as a predictor of
  variance in reading outcomes in deaf children (Kyle and Harris\, 2010\; 2
 011).  On the basis of our previous behavioural and neuroimaging research 
 we  propose that  speechreading provides deaf children with visual informa
 tion about the sublexical structure of spoken English and that this inform
 ation helps deaf children to establish amodal phonological representations
  of speech which they can bring to the task of learning to read. \nWe have
  previously found that deaf adults but not deaf children outperform their 
 hearing peers on tests of speechreading (Kyle et al.\, 2013\; Mohammed et 
 al.\, 2006). This pattern of results suggests that increased experience of
  understanding silent speech leads to improvements in speechreading abilit
 y\, and therefore raises the possibility that speechreading ability can be
  trained.  \nIn this talk I will present the background data to support th
 is model. I will also present the preliminary results from a randomised co
 ntrolled trial in which we tested the influence of computerised speechread
 ing training on reading development in young deaf children. \n
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre\, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit\, Chaucer
  Road
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