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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Some normative data on lip-reading skills (L)
Nicholas A. Altieri;
Department of Psychology,
The University of Oklahoma
, 3100 Monitor Avenue, 2 Partners Place, Suite 280, Norman, Oklahoma
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David B. Pisoni;
David B. Pisoni
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences,
Indiana University
, 1101 E. 10th Street, Bloomington, Indiana
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James T. Townsend
James T. Townsend
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences,
Indiana University
, 1101 E. 10th Street, Bloomington, Indiana
47405
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Author to whom correspondence should be addressed. Electronic mail: nick.altieri@ou.edu
J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 130, 1–4 (2011)
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Received:
July 16 2010
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May 04 2011
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Nicholas A. Altieri, David B. Pisoni, James T. Townsend; Some normative data on lip-reading skills (L). J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 1 July 2011; 130 (1): 1–4. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.3593376
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