Chronicle of a deaf audiologist

Learn to read lips #38

Originally Posted: May 8, 2026

When you are learning to read lips, substitution is an essential skill. Try it now with this short practice video:

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Here’s a link to the playlist for the free lessons on YouTube. There’s 10 lessons, which take about 90 minutes (total) to complete. Once you have finished that, you will have the basic foundation of speechreading theory! Then you need to practice, practice, practice. I offer one-to-one instruction if you want to improve further.

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Category: Lipreading, Lipreading, Skill Development

Sandra Vandenhoff
Dr. Sandra Vandenhoff is an audiologist with hearing loss, founder of HEARa, Hearing Rehabilitation teacher, and Canadian author, who does not remember saying on her first day of wearing hearing aids: "Mom, I can hear my shoelaces!"

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