Designing Sara Lipreading Test (No.2) and Implementing it in Hearing Adults

We need lipreading tests in order to evaluate patient’s lipreading skills and necessary instructions. These are two kinds of lipreading test: synthetic & analytic. Sara (2) lipreading test is an analytic test and complementary of Sara (1) lipreading test which was a synthetic one (Movallali, 2000). Developing a lipreading test and standardization of the test in a group with normal hearing and vision was the aim of this study. This study was a descriptive-analytical survey and its subjects included: 1) All Persian phonemes that were put in a VCV context. 2) 88 normally hearing and vision adults (58 males, 30 females) ranged from 17 to 85 years old). 1) “Sara Lipreading Test” (Number 2), composed of 23 nonsense two syllable VCVs. 2) Lipreading ability of Persian phonemes in 6 groups of homophones. 3) Subjects could distinguish between visems in 6 different homophone groups. 4) Content validity of the test. 5) No significant difference between test and retest. According to the results of this study, “Sara (2) Lipreading Test” is a valid and reliable analytic test for assessing lipreading ability of Persian phonemes and despite of its simple structure, gives us a lot of valuable information about lipreading skills and is complementary of synthetic lipreading tests.