lipreading

New course to train lipreading tutors – Scotland

The Scottish Course to Train Tutors of Lipreading is welcoming applications from anyone who is interested in becoming a lipreading tutor.

Building professional links

The Hearing Link Services team has been out and about this autumn, strengthening our links with those who work in the hearing loss sector. We’ve exhibited at the conferences of the British Academy of Audiology (BAA) and the Association of Teachers of Lipreading to Adults (ATLA). These are great opportunities to strengthen our ties with hearing care professionals […]

Learning to lipread: building confidence and skills

By Nicola Hicks What is the point of going to a lipreading class? You might think the answer to this is simple – surely people go because they have lost some hearing and need to lipread to help them follow conversation. It’s true this is the main reason people enrol, but there are lots of […]

Training to be a lipreading tutor

By Helen Hollings By the time I was 20 years old I was using two hearing aids due to a decline in my hearing, having been born deaf with a severe hearing loss in my left ear. I have always enjoyed sport, running and swam at the World Deaf Games in 1997 in Denmark. I then had […]

Those Who Perish

This book is set in the remote southwest of Australia and has interesting connections with Aboriginal culture and a lot of Aussie slang. I firmly believe that the way to understand people in other places and times is to read the fiction produced about them.

Free lipreading taster course in Edinburgh

A free lipreading taster course starts this coming Monday, 16 May, in Edinburgh

Lipreading classes – a lifeline to people with hearing loss in lockdown and beyond

By Lorraine Braggins Everyone felt cut off from friends and family during lockdown. But for those with hearing loss, feeling isolated can be a daily occurrence even in normal times. Losing your hearing can have a drastic effect on every day communication with family, friends, colleagues and people you encounter out and about in daily […]