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Lip Reading Online
Code: T24OC2146
Location: online
Cost: Free
Starting: Monday 13 January 2025
Duration: 5 sessions over 5 week(s)
Time: 6.00pm
By continuing you confirm that you are enrolling onto an adult learning course and that you are aged 19 or over on 1 September 2024, or you are enrolling a young person aged 14-18 on 31 August 2024 specifically onto one of our Study Programme courses, and that you agree to the Terms and Conditions.
Description
All our new Tailored Learning courses are matched to one of seven ‘purposes' which have been designed by the Department for Education to recognise the wider benefits of learning. This course will help you to become an active member of your local community. This course will help you to feel more confident about communicating with others. There will be practical lipreading activities to help you learn to distinguish visible and not so visible lip shapes in words. You will find out about hearing loss management tools and techniques to aid hearing and listening in a variety of scenarios.
This course is for you if you have a post lingual hearing loss. You may be new to lip reading or wish to gain more confiedence in your lip reading skills. Our Tailored Learning courses are for people who live in Derbyshire aged 19 and over.
This is an online course. There will be practical activities with guidance from your tutor. There will individual and group work including discussions about current and seasonal topics.
Your tutor will give you support and feedback so you know what to do to improve
You will need a laptop, tablet or Smartphone and internet access to be able to take this course. You will be part of a live class, with a tutor, but with everyone doing the lessons from their own home. We will send you an email at least 48 hours before your course is due to start with link to join through Microsoft Teams.
This course is free and there are no other costs.
Time and duration
Start Date: 13 January 2025
Start Time: 6.00pm
Day: Monday
First Lesson Duration: 01:30
Total Weeks: 5