Why is lipreading so important?

If you find that you hear better when you are looking at someone full face, then you have probably started lipreading already. Practising it in a more formal way enhances your abilities. It is a very useful tool to help when you are in a noisy situation, and there are techniques for checking that you have heard correctly.

You will be able to learn and practise lipreading skills in a friendly and safe environment with others who also have a hearing loss. Our regular Tutor, Kay Murray, is a qualified member of the Association of Teachers of Lipreading to Adults.

Useful Resources

Please enjoy these documents. Our group’s aim is to encourage learning to lipread.

Not only is it a skill if you suffer from hearing loss, but if you can hear very well it is also lots of fun.

We offer many helpful tips, lipreading exercises, and short stories and poems.

Coping with Hearing Loss

Click on the topics below to read more about the challenges of hearing loss and how to combat them.

1. Deaf awareness and hearing aids

2. Hearing loss problems in the middle ear

3. Helping the person with hearing loss

4. How much do we hear

5. How to help yourself hear better

6. Typical problems in noisy places

7. Coping with hearing loss at Christmas

8. The Ear how we hear

Lipreading Basics

Click on any of the titles below:-

1. Lipreading - A definition

2. Explaining the complex skills of lipreading

3. Facial expressions

4. Lipreading consonants

5. Lipreading vowels

6. How to help yourself hear better

7. Typical problems in noisy places

8. The restaurant

9. The rhythm of sound

10. Finger spelling chart

Practice lipreading online.  Click here for stories for lip-readers.