ABSTRACT
The reception of spoken thought by the adult who is becoming deaf must take place through the eyes as well as the ears, and the degree of reception through the eyes varies according to the amount of residual hearing or the amount which can be conveyed by a hearing aid. There are three main considerations to bear in mind when approaching the subject of teaching lipreading. First, the social position in which the adult faced with progressive deafness finds himself. Second, the difficulty the speech therapist may meet in concentrating on what speech looks like, because the very nature of her work has made her concentrate more on listening to speech and feeling speech. Third, the teacher of lipreading must have a sensitive and fertile imagination when she plans her lessons and teaching material. The adult who is going deaf feels he fits neither into the world of the deaf nor into that of the hearing.
