A nurse is caring for a hearing-impaired child who lip reads. The nurse should plan which intervention to facilitate lipreading?

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The child should be helped to learn and understand how to read lips by speaking at an even rate. It interferes with the child's comprehension of the spoken word to exaggerate pronunciation of words, to avoid using facial expressions, and to repeat in exactly the same way if the child does not understand.

A Nurse Is Caring for a Hearing-Impaired Child Who Lip