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New Study: Babies Learn Language By Lip-reading

By admin | February 2, 2012

All babies lip-read from about 6 months of age, to learn mouth-shapes for the sounds they hear, according to researchers at Florida Atlantic University.

When a baby gazes intently at a speaker’s mouth, this indicates they are working to learn to form syllables for themselves, instead of just babbling.

Read the piece >> Babies Learn Language By Reading Lips

From about 1 year old, the babies tended to shift back to eye contact, from lip-reading. If a new language was heard, the lip-reading tended to re-start.

Babies who are deaf would rely on this lip-reading ability more than others, and continue lip-reading past the researchers’ watershed age of 12 months.

Hearing-devices can support lip-reading for wearers of all ages. Babies with these devices can gain early language by simultaneously lip-reading and hearing sound. This is called the listening-and-speaking method of learning language, where a family’s language is likely to be the first language used.

Further Reading

* Babies appear to lipread as part of language-acquisition

* Parent Question: How Early To Teach Lip-Reading?

* Lipreading For Children: Challenges And Benefits

* Lipreading: The Challenges And Benefits

* Lip-Reading Training Benefits From Technology

* Listening & Speakng: A Link To Reading/Writing?

Topics: Irish Deaf Kids | 6 Comments »

6 Responses to “New Study: Babies Learn Language By Lip-reading”

1. IDK Says:
   February 3rd, 2012 at 6:29 pm

   Lip-reading ability is seen in this toddler from Cork, who has no hearing-nerve and is to have auditory brainstem implants (ABIs) http://bit.ly/At0Q3S

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