Free lipreading lessons on the South Coast.
Lipreading is a vital communication skill for many people with hearing loss.
We use our residual hearing and hearing aids to listen, but often we miss words or meanings. Lipreading can help us fill in the gaps in speech that you don’t hear. People of all ages with all degrees of hearing loss can use lipreading to support their hearing.
What is lipreading?
Lipreading is more than just watching someone’s lips.
Lipreading someone is watching their whole face, recognising their facial expressions and noticing their body language.
Becoming a good lipreader requires skill, concentration, and a lot of practice.
Lipreading is a skill that can be learnt.
Attending a class with a qualified teacher will help you achieve these abilities more rapidly.
Lipreading classes are designed to encourage skills but also help build confidence, give you more control over your hearing loss, increase independence and reduce isolation that is very often associated with hearing loss.
Improve your lipreading and find positive coping strategies to enable you to manage your hearing loss in a hearing World.
How attending a lipreading group can help you
Research has found that attending a lipreading group can:
- Build your confidence for communicating with others
- Help you feel more connected and reduce social isolation
- Improve your feelings of wellbeing
- Introduce you to people with similar lived experience
- Offer you new coping strategies
- Give you a sense of control over your hearing loss as you develop new communication skills
- Increase your feelings of independence, as you’re less reliant on others to help you follow conversation
