While the county’s face mask order may be a valuable tool for reducing the spread of COVID-19, it has had an unexpected negative impact on the hearing-impaired community, who can no longer read ...

With implants, context interpretation, facial cues, and lip-reading, I can comprehend more than 95 percent of speech in a quiet situation. As mask regulations spring up, ...

Yet masks have also forced us to be more inventive in the ways we communicate with each other. They remove some of the onus that has long been placed upon deaf people to lipread, to pass, to catch ...

While lip reading comes in handy for everyone, it’s crucial for certain groups of people, Dr. Sydlowski says, including children, who rely heavily on visual information when talking to other ...

Now, lip reading is hard, too." Wearing face masks has become the new normal for daily living – and it will continue to be as more states begin to loosen social distancing restrictions to reopen ...