: Lip Reading and Palm Spelling

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Hi -

This is a great idea to have the person trace the letters like that - but

what if they have really bad handwriting?? )

My wife has gotten better at slowing down so I can lip-read more of what she

says. But when fingerspelling, she often mixes up the " F " with the " D " , the

" Y " with the " I " and the " M " with the " N " .

" Did you call your mother? " becomes " Fyf iou call iour nother. " ... and

that's when she's *sober*. )

Nike A in FL

Message: 3 Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 13:44:31 -0400

Subject: communicationsGang,

One of the more salient features of this list is that it gives us realistic

expectations in managing our disease.

Speaking from experience, this is more than I ever got from the majority of

doctors involved in my treatment.

Lip-reading is a good tool but it has limitations. You can't lip-read words

you have no knowledge of. Names from foreign cultures, technical terms you

are not familiar with, out-of-context remarks and non-sequiturs just to name

a few.Well, one friend I know has come up with a way to communicate with me.

Tracing in capital letters on the palm of the hand. And it works fine. I

lip-read what I can, the rest is a trace which after three or four letters

becomes obvious. V.