Healthy Living: Lipreading and Managing Hearing Loss

Lipreading is a vital communication skill for many people with hearing loss. It’s the ability to recognise a person's lip shapes, gestures, and facial movements when speaking to gain a better understanding of what they are saying.

Your tutor will be able to demonstrate shapes that a sound makes on the lips and encourage you to use this learning and support you to interpret them.

You will also learn how to use other clues to understand what a speaker is saying and techniques to fill in the gaps. At the same time, learning other strategies such as the best place to position yourself in a group so that you can lipread everyone and how to be more assertive, so you feel more confident asking people to rephrase themselves.

On completing this course, you will be more confident in social situations and better understand how we hear and the strategies to be aware of how to help this process.