Lip Reading Tips
by Michele Linder & Chelle Wyatt Chelle: This article will not only help those who lipread, but it will help all hard of hearing people… Read More »Lip Reading Tips
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Improve Lipreading Skills Using Anticipation and Prediction
By Chelle Wyatt & Michele Linder This article is about how to improve lipreading skills using anticipation and prediction. This is just a piece of the… Read More »Improve Lipreading Skills Using Anticipation and Prediction
Speechreading Tips and Hints
Speechreading Tips & Hints (also called Lipreading) By Chelle Wyatt I teach speechreading tips at work and it’s becoming a popular class. The classes become… Read More »Speechreading Tips and Hints
Navigating A World That Assumes You Hear: How to Deal With Not Being Able to Hear
By Michele Linder At whatever stage in life you came to hearing loss, it’s likely no one gave you any specific information on how to… Read More »Navigating A World That Assumes You Hear: How to Deal With Not Being Able to Hear
“Meatball Sugar”… Say What?
by Michele Linder When mishearing leads to a good laugh According to Miriam Websters Dictionary, a mondegreen is a mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase… Read More »“Meatball Sugar”… Say What?
Gestures Aid Communication
by Chelle Wyatt I teach a speechreading class at different senior centers through my work with the state. Every time I teach the class I… Read More »Gestures Aid Communication
The Holidays: Including those you love with hearing loss
tby Michele Linder When the answer is “No.”, the holidays and all their festive gatherings can become filled with anxiety and dread. Large gatherings are especially difficult… Read More »The Holidays: Including those you love with hearing loss
I’m a Lipreader
By Chelle Wyatt I’m a lipreader and I say that to people thinking it’s straight forward. I haven’t said hard of hearing in a few years because… Read More »I’m a Lipreader
Oral Interpreting: There’s more than one way to see what’s said
Last year, at the SayWhatClub Convention, held in Madison, Wisconsin, those of us who signed up for the Wisconsin State Capitol Tour had the pleasure… Read More »Oral Interpreting: There’s more than one way to see what’s said
Tweaking a Hearing Aid Program..and Cookies
Yesterday was another trip to the audiologist to get my hearing aids programmed. For the last three months, certain sounds made me cringe, clench my… Read More »Tweaking a Hearing Aid Program..and Cookies
An Interview With Lip Reading Mom
The SayWhatClub conducted an interview with lip reading mom, Shanna Groves, author of two books on hearing loss. She was diagnosed with progressive hearing loss… Read More »An Interview With Lip Reading Mom
What’s That Pig Outdoors? A Book Review by Dorothy Black
WHAT’S THAT PIG OUTDOORS? A Memoir of Deafness By Henry Kisor At the time of writing this book, Henry Kisor worked for the… Read More »What’s That Pig Outdoors? A Book Review by Dorothy Black
Help SayWhatClub Stop Hearing Loss Bullying
By Shanna Groves / LipreadingMom.com As a person with hearing loss, I have seen bullying first hand. I’ve been called ‘stupid,’ ‘mule-headed,’ and have been… Read More »Help SayWhatClub Stop Hearing Loss Bullying
The Things I Can Hear
Those of us who are hard of hearing often get bogged down in what we can’t hear. Last year I decided to go the positive… Read More »The Things I Can Hear
Hard of Understanding
How often do I tell people I’m hard of hearing? Not often these days because they only speak louder which distorts word discrimination. Now I… Read More »Hard of Understanding
HOW DO YOU HANDLE COMMUNICATION WITH HAIRSTYLISTS AND HEARING LOSS?
It’s hard to find a hairstylist that “gets” you. I put off going to the hairstylist for this reason. When I lived in Atlanta, I… Read More »HOW DO YOU HANDLE COMMUNICATION WITH HAIRSTYLISTS AND HEARING LOSS?
Vacation with a Hearing Loss
The airplane A few weeks ago I went to Maui with my aunt and her grand daughter. After having so much trouble hearing on the… Read More »Vacation with a Hearing Loss