speech reading

Speech Reading To Help the Hearing Impaired

When you can't hear what those around you are saying, you miss out not only on vital information but also on a whole world of social interactions. Those who don't suffer from hearing loss simply don’t understand everything you miss out on when you're hearing impaired. In fact, your friends and family members might not truly understand the frustration and emotional struggles that can accompany hearing loss. 

Thankfully, being hard of hearing doesn't mean that you have to miss out on many of life's best moments. While a 100-percent effective cure for hearing loss still isn't available, many hearing-impaired individuals benefit from combating hearing loss by learning speech reading. Also known as lip reading, speech reading is a method you can learn to cope with auditory problems while remaining actively involved with their communities, families and friends. 

Speech reading goes far beyond simply knowing what message someone is mouthing across a room. When mastered, speech reading is known as a third ear because it allows individuals to clearly understand what others are saying. If you have difficult hearing in rooms with background noise or often misunderstand what others are saying to you, studying reading lips can be a great way to take charge of your hearing impairment and regain the joy of communicating with others.

No matter how long you've dealt with hearing impairment, you've probably tried to rely on your third ear to decipher what those around you are saying. Unfortunately, lip reading isn't always as easy as it seems. That's why lip-reading training makes sense for many individuals who suffer from hearing impairment. In our training program, you'll learn how to:

• Interpret speech patterns in isolation, and in context
• Apply common sense to figure out the missed words
• Put them together into a full sentence, and reply

By combining these skills, you'll have greater success at interpreting what others are saying in a wide variety of social settings. 

If you're interested in learning more about speech reading, take some time to review our Beginner's Guide to Lip Reading .

Learning how to lip read isn't difficult. Our training courses are focused on breaking down the skills you need and teaching them to you in a practical, eyes-on fashion so that you can apply them to your life right away. If you're frustrated by missing out on conversations with those you care about, take the first steps in your speech reading journey with us today. 

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