Chronicle of a deaf audiologist

When You’re Learning How to Read Lips No. 1

When you’re learning how to read lips, it can be really helpful when you know which sounds look alike. Then you can do a quick substitution in your mind when the first thing you see does not make sense! When you get enough practice, you can learn to do this in real time!

See my YouTube short clip (only 27 seconds!) for an example.

 

  • Photo credit:  © Alan Fortune

    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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