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1834 N. Amer. Rev. Apr. 341 Is it desirable, that the deaf and dumb pupil should be taught to speak, and to read upon the lips?

1844 H. Mann 7th Ann. Rep. Secretary Board of Educ. in Mass. 32 A girl whose facility in reading from the lips was so remarkable, that she could read at a great distance.

1884 in J. C. Gordon Educ. of Deaf (1892) p. xxxiv Most of them can read lips readily.

1950 E. H. Nitchie New Lessons in Lip Reading ii. 35 Even an expert lip reader cannot possibly read lips that do not move.

2001 W. C. Stokoe Lang. in Hand iv. 53 They insisted that clear speech..could be read on the lips with facility.

2003 Newsweek 24 Feb. 16/1 We talked to..other parents of deaf children to figure out whether we should raise Julia as an oralist—someone who uses hearing aids and reads lips—or a signer.

1887 Proc. 11th Convent. Amer. Instructors of Deaf 236 I will go around the class..never looking at the children, because I might read their lips.

1916 E. W. Sargent Technique of Photoplay (ed. 3) lv. 271 The real murderers come to watch the trial and by reading their lips the secretary is enabled to free her sweetheart.

2001 Kenyon Rev. Winter 164 Fans with opera glasses could actually read his lips: ‘Odette! Don't go!’