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{SPEAKER name="Jan de Lap/Charles Dietz (interpreter)"} No spaying, no fleas, no nothing. You don't have to take the dog outside. It's a very special breed. Could you bring the dog, please?

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Excuse us. Get that dog out of here.

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[[clapping]]

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Remember that program itself is a wonderful program and many many deaf people do love the dogs. It costs $3000 to train one dog and they depend on donations for that.

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and I just—I hope—I enjoyed sharing that information with you.

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Next, I would like to talk to you about some of the hazards of lip reading. Do you know about lip reading? People often times ask me, "Do you lip read? Can you lip read?"

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Sometimes I will say, "You see, lips are for kissing, not for reading like a book" or "yes, I lip read but only in braille."

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Yes, I lip read. It is guess work, I don't mind and the true fact is maybe 25 percent to 30 percent of English words can be
easily understood on the lips. The rest - it's left to guess work.

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Some deaf people have been trained highly to understand a lot but I would suspect that often most deaf people in general are not very skilled at reading lips.

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There are special hazards too. We will show you.