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Lipreading helps people understand more speech by watching for and identifying mouth movements that are associated with speech.

Being able to see speech helps people communicate better, especially in challenging listening environments like when there is background noise.

Improving Everyday Life

Like Sarah's situation above, lipreading helps people comprehend speech more clearly and connect to more conversations. 

Hearing assistive technology and residual hearing are very helpful for speech comprehension, however, sometimes it's hard to catch every word a person says. 

Lipreading is a tool that can help your patients fill in the blanks and pick up more words and make it easier to process what someone is saying.

Lipreading helps people feel more comfortable interacting in social situations because it allows them to understand speech without having to rely so much on their ears to pick up every sound.

Lipreading can boost confidence

Improving lipreading skills can help people with hearing loss understand more speech by giving them the opportunity to connect and engage with more conversations.

Learning and building lipreading skills can enhance listening skills and help people feel confident as they are able to successfully contribute to conversations. 

Lipreading can help people interact with others, improve communication skills, and help remove feelings of isolation as a result of living with hearing challenges.

Lipreading is a tool for those with or without hearing loss

Lipreading comes with the benefit of learning about how to manage hearing challenges present in everyday life. 

It's very common for people to feel uncomfortable when talking about hearing challenges with others. Learning to lipread is a soft approach to managing these challenges and a way to help people feel more comfortable with the hearing challenges present in their life. 

Although learning to lipread is about understanding more speech, it's also about ensuring people feel comfortable talking about and telling others about the challenges their experiencing. We remind students that they're allowed to be assertive and comfortable with asking people to repeat what they've said and making sure their hearing needs are met.

Lipreading can help people feel more in control

Knowing how to lipread gives individuals the opportunity to have more control in certain listening environments. 

Feeling more in control of hearing challenges can help people feel more connected to those around them. Good communication is an essential part of building relationships and lipreading can help with that. By improving communication skills, your patients can more effectively connect with others.

Lipreading is knowledge and knowledge is power. Lipreading courses like Read Our Lips teach people how to identify and watch for speech movements on the mouth and how to manage and adapt to different listening environments. These skills can help your patients minimize the effects of hearing challenges and increase effective communication.

Lipreading can help your patients be more independent

Lipreading allows people to manage communication more independently and can impact how well they understand conversations. You may see improvements in conversations at appointments.  

Lipreading is also a tool that can help reduce the likelihood of feeling isolated or left out. As your patients learn how to understand more speech they will be able to do more things on their own with less difficulty and less reliance on others to hear for them.