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In fact, Newsom has stopped giving annual State of the State addresses to a joint session of the Legislature — usually citing some concocted excuse, but really because of his difficulty with speech-reading.

“Craptions,” as they’re often called, combined with recordings that don’t require presenters to keep their cameras on, prevent those who rely on captions or speech-reading from fully understanding the presentation.

And in interactions in which deaf people rely on speech-reading and facial cues, masks make communication nearly impossible.

Some disabilities were relatively easy to provide accessible information for, by asking people to make transcripts of audio for people with hearing impairment or ensure written information is compatible with speech-reading software used by those with a visual impairment.

The Oral Method.—Speech and speech-reading, together with writing, are made the chief means of instruction, and facility in speech and speech-reading, as well as mental development and written language, is aimed at.