Says he: "For every 100 words that are recognized by the method of lipreading alone, 120 are recognized in what I call lip-touch-reading or in the condition of dual stimulation.
They favor lipreading, say the use of sign language leads children to invent undesirable word pictures, hinders their learning the English language.
He learned to lip-read teachers and fellow students, and still relies on lipreading in English and Russian rather than the sign language used by most deaf people.