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. 2011 Jul;130(1):1-4.
doi: 10.1121/1.3593376.

Some normative data on lip-reading skills (L)

Nicholas A Altieri  1 , David B Pisoni, James T Townsend
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Some normative data on lip-reading skills (L)

Nicholas A Altieri et al. J Acoust Soc Am. 2011 Jul.

Abstract

The ability to obtain reliable phonetic information from a talker's face during speech perception is an important skill. However, lip-reading abilities vary considerably across individuals. There is currently a lack of normative data on lip-reading abilities in young normal-hearing listeners. This letter describes results obtained from a visual-only sentence recognition experiment using CUNY sentences and provides the mean number of words correct and the standard deviation for different sentence lengths. Additionally, the method for calculating T-scores is provided to facilitate the conversion between raw and standardized scores. This metric can be utilized by clinicians and researchers in lip-reading studies. This statistic provides a useful benchmark for determining whether an individual's lip-reading score falls within the normal range, or whether it is above or below this range.

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Figure 1
The line in the middle of the box shows the mean visual-only sentence recognition score across all 84 participants. The 75th and 25th percentile are represented by the line above and below the middle line, respectively. The small bars on the top and bottom denote a value of 1.5 times the interquartile range.
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