Hearing technology is better than ever before. And yet, at times, background noise can obscure what we want to hear. Why not use another dominant sense in communication – vision – to help figure out what we are missing?
One such strategy is SUBSTITUTION. If you know which sounds look alike, you can do a quick substitution in your mind when the first thing you see doesn’t make sense.
Try it! Watch this 8-second short video to find out some pairs of sounds that look alike. Then substitute the sounds in the sentences below. With practice, you can learn to do this in real time.
Take a Lipreading class to learn more strategies!
- Swans bait for life.
- I am the same hide as you.
- I veil to see the difference.
