I-X -- Chapter 1: Acquired deafness: an overview -- Chapter 2: Review of speech literature -- Chapter 3: The scope and methods of the Belfast study -- Chapter 4: The intelligibility of deafened speakers and the variables which affect it -- Chapter 5: Automatic acoustic analysis of deafened speech -- Chapter 6: Intonation -- Chapter 7: Errors of articulation -- Chapter 8: Social and emotional reactions to deafened people's speech -- Chapter 9: Speech impairments due to hearing loss: their effect on person perception in information-rich contexts -- Chapter 10: Acquired deafness and interaction -- Chapter 11: Do they mean us? Preliminaries to a theory of lipreading that is recognisable to deafened lipreaders -- Chapter 12: Integrating central processes into accounts of lipreading -- Chapter 13: Understanding the quality of deafened people's lives -- References -- Author Index -- Subject Index