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Lipreading

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Lipreading

NHS England

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NHS England: Accessible Information Standard v1.1 - Implementation guidance

A way of understanding or supporting understanding of speech by visually interpreting the lip and facial movements of the speaker. Lipreading is used by some people who are d/Deaf or have some hearing loss and by some deafblind people.

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