SIGN LANGUAGE AND SPEECH READING

The Animated American Sign Language Dictionary will teach you letters, numbers and words. The site can be found at

"Handspeak", a great site for learning some basic sign language and more. To learn in sign language, the alphabet, numbers, words and more, and about other visual communications, the link is: http://www.handspeak.com/

The Yamada Language Center at the University of Oregon has a large selection of materials on sign language including a list of kinks to other Sign Language related site and Hearing Loss site. The link is: http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/guides/asl.html

Dr. Neil Bauman expresses his opinion on Speech Reading at http://www.hearinglosshelp.com/speechreading.htm

Dr. Mark Ross gives his ideas about speech reading in an article located at: http://www.hearingresearch.org/Dr.Ross/speechreading.htm

A most interesting and sophisticated FM system designed to improve the speech reading ability of students, a system which combines audio as well as visual components, is described in one of Dr. Mark Ross's latest articles that can be located at http://www.hearingresearch.org/Dr.Ross/FM_System_Speechreading.htm

www.listen-up.org provides a number of articles on the how to, why and much more about speech reading. The site page is located at