Author: NITCHIE, EDWARD B.
Title: Lip-Reading Principles and Practise
Description: New York, NY: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1916. Trade Edition. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good- condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some bumping, rubbing and several small spots of fraying. The green cloth cover have several spots of discoloration and rubbing. The text pages are generally clean, though there is tidemarking to the bottom edges of all of the text pages. The front endpaper has an ink stamped previous owner's name, and there is a previous owner's bookplate (Wiekko M. Tienhaara) on the front pastedown page. "Lip reading, also known as speechreading, is a technique of understanding speech by visually interpreting the movements of the lips, face and tongue when normal sound is not available. It relies also on information provided by the context, knowledge of the language, and any residual hearing. Although lip reading is used most extensively by deaf and hard-of-hearing people, most people with normal hearing process some speech information from sight of the moving mouth" (from Wikipedia). Very Good- .

Keywords: Medicine Edward B. Nitchie Lip-reading Hard Of Hearing


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