Healthy Living; Lipreading and managing hearing loss
Course overview
Course description
Lip reading is a vital communication skill for many people with hearing loss. It’s the ability to recognise the lip shapes, gestures, and facial movements of a person when they are speaking, to gain a better understanding of what they are saying.
Your tutor will be able demonstrate shapes that sounds make 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 speak is saying and techniques to fill in the gaps. You will learn other skills 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 repeat themselves.
On completion of this course, you will be more confident in social situations and better understand how we hear and the strategies to be aware of that help this process.
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