Healthy Living: Introduction to Lip Reading

This course is designed for anyone who would like to learn some lipreading skills. The aim is to help gain a better understanding of lipreading and knowledge of how to give the right support for a hearing-impaired person who may be finding it difficult to follow conversations.

Improve your understanding of lipreading and knowledge of how to support a hearing-impaired person who relies on lipreading.

This course is ideal for beginners and will be delivered face-to-face in a small group environment.

Our experienced tutor will be able to demonstrate how lip reading can be beneficial to those people experiencing hearing loss and will be able to advise on further courses for those people who would like to learn how to lip read.

Communication is so important to all of us and encompasses all areas of our lives, whether it is in our working lives, our social lives or just the everyday, simple interactions with other people.

People who have a hearing loss often feel very left out when our family and friends are in conversation because we are unable to follow accurately what they say.

Sometimes we can become frustrated and depressed and even reluctant to join the group or to go out to events where we know it’s going to be difficult for us.

This self-imposed isolation doesn’t help us as it escalates, and our bad feelings get worse. Being able to lip read is a skill that can help people feel more involved and reduce feelings of isolation.