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Manchester Metropolitan University
The aim of this course is to provide a broad and basic grounding in the skills and understanding required to teach lipreading and other communication skills to adults who have a hearing impairment who need, or wish, to use speech.
The course also aims to enable the teacher to communicate effectively with people with a hearing impairment, make effective referrals to other people and organisations, and provide the information and support needed.
The course qualifies students to set up and teach speechreading classes. These may be held in, for example, colleges and centres of adult and further education, hospitals, day centres, clubs for people who are hard of hearing, clubs for people who are retired, and homes for people who are elderly.
What will I study?
The course comprises six major but interlinked subject areas. These are:
- Communication of people with a hearing impairment who use speech;
- Practical and psychological implications of a hearing impairment;
- Communication of the teacher;
- Teaching adults;
- Medical and audiological aspects of hearing impairment;
- General information and support.
