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lip-reading

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lip-reading
a method used by deaf people to comprehend spoken words by interpreting movements of the speaker's lips


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Just as, with you, the deaf and dumb, if once allowed to gesticulate and to use the hand-alphabet, will never acquire the more difficult but far more valuable art of lipspeech and lip-reading, so it is with us as regards "Seeing" and "Feeling".
 
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