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lipreading concept class.
Hello from Hearing Loss LIVE! Happy weekend. So
we wanted to do a short and talk
to you about our lipreading class
that will be coming out -- yesterday,
enrollment opened, we want to talk
a little bit about our experience
and why we are super excited to be
teaching this class. I got to teach
it for a year online. I had been
involved before then as as a
captioner. Before I went to work as
an assistant at a hard of hearing
cent-- the Services for the Deaf and
Hard of Hearing here in Utah.
But I love online because not only
can you bring in all sorts of
different accents, we all talk
differently, right? You have the
ability to really use the lipreading skill, and I found it just
helps so much in learning what
there is behind lipreading.
I think our first class, memory
serves, Lipreading Concept Class.
And I think that's a great idea.
But I'm going to let Chelle and
Michele explain why. Because when
it comes to experience, they're our
leaders in this. And then I'll talk
a little more about the cost and
what to expect.
Chelle, you want to start us off?
Chelle: Oh, sorry. I'm laughing because
it's said jelly instead of Chelle.
But I'll let Michele go first.
Okay, she says no. So in 2007, I
had this big hearing loss drop that
made me like living, it kept me
living in a sea of noise. And I
couldn't hear anything. And I mean,
it seemed like every situation was
a complete struggle, no matter
where I was at. I felt like I
couldn't hear hardly anything. And
I probably wasn't.
So I did take the Sanderson Center
speechreading class, which is 18
lessons with lip shapes and the
concepts together.
I took it first as they as a
consumer. And later I taught it
several times, multiple times. And
I edited the class three times, I
think at least trying to shape it
around what I was learning and how
I saw people learning what worked
best, what didn't work at all in a
few cases. So after, after taking
the class and editing it and teaching
it for so much. I learned a whole
lot. I got comfortable with it.
And now I hear better than ever,
sometimes I compare my hearing loss
it's still the same, nothing's
changed. 2008, 09, 10 I struggled, I
couldn't hear anything. Now I can
handle almost any situation
confidently because I know all the
concepts to lipreading. So I
know how to advocate and anticipate and
all these different things. So it
made a huge difference in my hard of
hearing communication life.
Learning the lips shapes was fun
too. That's helped a lot with a lot
of practice. That's more practice,
okay. But it's helped improve my
lipreading skills immensely.
Michele: Um, of course, if you've listened
to our podcast before, you know
that I lost my hearing as a child
and so lipreading is hardwired for
me.
The doctor who diagnosed me sad,
she's been lipreading for years,
she's lipreading everything I'm
saying. And so I probably had a
hearing loss way back before I was
diagnosed in grade school.
So I get the concept of what lipreading is. I also had a deaf
grandmother who was a lipreader.
And so I knew about lipreading
from her perspective, before I ever
knew I had a hearing loss myself.
But what I didn't really know were
all of the technical and intricacy,
details of lipreading about lip
shapes, and, and all of that and so
when I took the lipreading classes
in the state of Utah, they opened
them up to other states when Chelle
was the hard of hearing specialist,
and I actually signed up for both
classes simultaneously and I did two, 18
week classes because I was really
interested in figuring out how it
worked and knowing more about it.
And
I have gotten by in life with lipreading, I, it's allowed me to cope
very well and not to have to
declare my hearing loss. And so
when I was a teenager and young
adult, I wasn't comfortable telling
people, I was a lipreader, I just
did it.
And then when lipreading failed,
because you can't lipread
everyone, some people, you're just
never going to be able to lip read,
I would panic. And then of course,
any skill that I had just went
right out the window. So that's
part of what the lipreading concept class
is geared towards teaching people
and Chelle and I both know, we've
volunteered for the SayWhatClub for
well over a decade, and we see so
many people who are new to hearing
loss or who are new to finding
support for their hearing loss, who
want to know how to lipread. And
there just aren't a lot of classes
here on the US. There are tons of
them in the UK, but not in the US.
And so it just makes sense to focus
on those concepts that will help
you learn to lipread.
Before you ever start learning
about the lip shapes, and all of
the other technical parts of it.
And before you have to start
practicing, because knowing those
concepts builds confidence. I'll
give you a quick example. I've done
I've consulted on a couple of jobs,
where people are looking to have
film or video lipread. And they
send me the film and the video and
I look at it, and I really, I can
guess, but once they send me all
the information that goes along
with what the scenario is, what's
happening in the video or the
film, what the context is, what
they think that people are saying
or what, what they're trying to
understand about what the people on
the film are saying. Once I know
that
I can see what the people are
saying. Not every word, not
perfectly, but then I can
transcribe part of what they're
saying. And without that context,
without all of that other
information. lipreading is almost
impossible. So it makes sense for
us to teach about the concepts of
all of the other things besides lip
shapes first, when you know that
you're way ahead of the game.
Julia: Thank you, both of you. You know,
you're right, because I think we've
said before everybody to some
extent lipreads, right, a little
bit, whether- they usually find out
how much more they do it than they
knew about. But then they kind of
get stuck on. But I can't see every
word. I didn't see that shape on on
your lips. So taking the concept so
people can get into their into
their mindset. Okay, I might catch
every other word.
And this is why and knowing and
becoming comfortable there will
help them when it comes to practice
and doing a lip shape class. I just
think the idea was like, Oh, wow,
why why didn't we come up with this
earlier? It makes so much sense.
And so I love that Michele and
Chelle have this lipreading
concept class together. That's a
mouthful for me. If you guys don't
already know this, I stumbled on
titles. It's really exciting. We're
happy. We're really excited to roll
it out. We are going to do this
introductory lipreading concept
class for $50. It's eight weeks of
class that's only $6.25 A class. It
will start Thursday, February 17.
And go to our website and pull up
the registration form and join us,
learn more about your lipreading.
Whether you're proficient or you're
new to hearing loss or you don't
even know if you lipread. Or if
you're a hearing partner. Come find
out what what it takes to actually
lipread. But join us February 17th
for our Lipreading Concept Class. Bye.
Join Hearing Loss LIVE! with their
new Lipreading Concepts Class on
Google meet starts Thursday,
February 17, and runs until
Thursday, April 7, from six to 7pm.
Mountain Time. Only $50 per person.
That's only $6.25 per class.
Registration now open, go to
hearinglosslive.com and in the
upper right corner, click upcoming
events. Hope to see you there