Lipreading Classes
Learn to manage your hearing loss and improve your communication skills through lipreading
Losing your hearing can happen to anyone, at any age, and there's no one-size-fits-all experience. Lipreading, often combined with a hearing aid, is a fantastic way to manage hearing loss, enhance communication, and improve your quality of life.
At City Lit, we offer lipreading and hearing loss management classes to boost your communication skills and confidence in social situations. Most of our tutors have personal experience with hearing loss and teach from lived experience.
Join others facing similar challenges with our in-person courses or learn from the comfort of your home with our online options.
If you want to learn more about how to deal with hearing loss, head to our blog today.
- Lipreading and managing hearing loss: beginners module 2Course start date: Mon 28 Apr 2025 (and 7 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Christine HathwayThis class is suitable for if you have completed module 1 or an introduction to lipreading class at City Lit. You will develop your lipreading and fingerspelling skills and build your confidence.
This course will be taught in spoken English and not in sign language.
See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £229.00 Concession £115.00 - Lipreading and managing hearing loss: introduction
Course start date: Wed 7 May 2025 (and 1 other date)Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Fiona PickettFull fee £189.00 Senior fee £123.00 Concession £95.00 - Managing hearing loss at work Course start date: Fri 9 May 2025 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Nicola HicksThis course is for people who have a hearing loss and who work in an office environment. It covers a range of common office scenarios and issues that arise for people with hearing loss.
This course will be taught in spoken English and not in sign language.Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £69.00 Concession £69.00 - Become more lipreadable Course start date: Fri 23 May 2025 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Lorraine BragginsDo you know a hard of hearing or deaf person who needs to lipread you? Find out how lipreading works and how you can make some small adjustments in order to become more 'lipreadable'.
This course will be taught in spoken English and not in sign language.Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £69.00 Concession £69.00 - Living well with hearing loss Course start date: Wed 25 Jun 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Lisa CoxThis course will give you practical strategies for coping with your hearing loss and will help improve your confidence and well-being.
This course will be taught in spoken English and not in sign language.Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £45.00 Concession £35.00 - Communication with older people with a hearing loss Course start date: Fri 27 Jun 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Lorraine BragginsThe course will cover the features of age-related hearing loss and how these relate to what, and how, older people hear and understand. Participants will learn communication strategies so that older people can understand them better.
This course will be taught in spoken English and not in sign language.Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £69.00 Concession £69.00 - Lipreading and managing hearing loss: improvers module 1Course start date: Mon 15 Sep 2025 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Nicola HicksDevelop your lipreading skills and strategies for face-to-face communication and keep up-to-date with relevant equipment and services. This course is suitable if you have a basic understanding of lipreading consonant and vowel theory, can finger spell and have also either completed beginners modules 1, 2 and 3 or have completed a year’s lipreading classes in the past and want to re-join a course.
This course will be taught in spoken English and not in sign language.Full fee £239.00 Senior fee £155.00 Concession £120.00 - Lipreading and managing hearing loss: beginners module 1Course start date: Mon 15 Sep 2025 (and 5 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Nicola HicksThis class is suitable for total beginners who have little or no experience of lipreading or who have completed a lipreading class at any level in the past, but want to go back to basics. You will learn how to recognise some sounds that are visible on the lips and how to use other tactics to support lipreading and how to manage hearing loss.
This course will be taught in spoken English and not in sign language.
See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £239.00 Senior fee £155.00 Concession £120.00 - Lipreading and managing hearing loss: beginners module 3Course start date: Mon 15 Sep 2025 (and 5 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Christine HathwayThis class is suitable for if you have completed beginners modules 1 and 2 or have completed a lipreading class in the past and already have a basic understanding of lipreading theory and fingerspelling. You will develop your lipreading and fingerspelling skills and build your confidence.
This course will be taught in spoken English and not in sign language.
See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £239.00 Senior fee £239.00 Concession £120.00 - Lipreading and managing hearing loss: advancedCourse start date: Tue 16 Sep 2025 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Adam GurneyDevelop your lipreading skills and strategies for face-to-face communication and keep up-to-date with relevant equipment and services. This course is suitable if you have completed a lipreading class at improvers' level.
This course will be taught in spoken English and not in sign language.Full fee £399.00 Senior fee £399.00 Concession £200.00 - Lipreading and managing hearing loss: long term learners advancedCourse start date: Tue 16 Sep 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Anita ThorntonAre you an experienced lipreader, confident in your theory, but wishing to keep up your skills with continued practice? Suitable if you have been coming to lipreading classes for a while and want to continue to be stretched.
This course will be taught in spoken English and not in sign language. - Lipreading and managing hearing loss: improvers module 2Course start date: Mon 12 Jan 2026 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Nicola HicksDevelop your lipreading skills and strategies for face-to-face communication and keep up-to-date with relevant equipment and services. This course is suitable if you have completed improvers module 1.
This course will be taught in spoken English and not in sign language.Full fee £239.00 Senior fee £155.00 Concession £120.00 - Lipreading and managing hearing loss: improvers module 3Course start date: Mon 20 Apr 2026 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Nicola HicksDevelop your lipreading skills and strategies for face-to-face communication and keep up-to-date with relevant equipment and services. This course is suitable if you have completed improvers module 1 and 2.
This course will be taught in spoken English and not in sign language.Full fee £239.00 Senior fee £155.00 Concession £120.00 - Lipreading tasterCourse start date: Sat 26 Apr 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Lorraine BragginsThis taster is taught in English, with a BSL interpreter. Learn how lipreading works and try some fun exercises.
If this workshop is fully booked online, there will be a number of places available to book in person on the day at the Deaf Day Box Office (to left of ground floor entrance).
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