If hearing loss is affecting your life - then get in touch!

we support men & WOMEN WITH HEARING LOSS, REGARDLESS OF AGE, GENDER, OR ETHNICITY IN CENTRAL ENGLAND

About CELST

CELST, the charity, is a voluntary (not for profit) charity whose prime objective is to raise funding to sustain lipreading classes and expand them where it is possible.

At CELST, we welcome everyone who has an interest in hearing loss.

Lipreading helps us to recognise lip shapes, which helps us to understand speech by using our eyes. when someone is speaking, their facial movements, gestures and body language give us important clues to what is being said.

Learning to lipread can help us to take part in conversations. it can fill in the gaps in conversation that we can’t hear when we are in noisy places or with friends and family.

As well as teaching lipreading, our courses provide:-

• Places for people with hearing loss to meet to share experiences
• Coping strategies
• Information about positioning
• Focusing
• Getting people without hearing loss to communicate in a way that improves understanding
• Information about technical aids and equipment to help in the home.

 
Learning to lipread, together with coping strategies, can give you more confidence at work and in social environments, and will increase independence and feelings of self esteem.

Our lipreading courses are fun. they are not like school . they are interactive and conducted by our ATLA (the Association of Teaching Lipreading to Adults) qualified instructor. they are generally in 10 week modules that correspond to the general academic term.

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Hearing Loss - Useful Websites

​Action on Hearing Loss
Hearing Link - Connecting people, transforming lives
Warwickshire County Council – Services for the Deaf
ATLA: Association of Teachers of Lipreading to Adults
The Ear Foundation

Coffee Mornings

We hold regular coffee mornings for everyone who has an interest in hearing loss. Read more

Our Supporters

View our supporters and find out more about how you can become involved. ​Read more

Improving the Skills of those
with / without hearing loss

Celst is not only committed to improving the communication skills of people with hearing loss, we would also like to improve the skills of the hearing public when communicating with people with hearing loss. We offer courses for those that are hard of hearing and those that would like to know more about lipreading...

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Communicating with a person with hearing loss

CELST is not only committed to improving the communication skills of people with hearing loss, we would also like to improve the skills of the hearing public when communicating with people with hearing loss. These are some of the do’s and don’ts that are helpful.​

Finally, never give up with a “never mind” or “it doesn’t matter”, it always does. Remember, all people with hearing loss ​will fudge and pretend they have heard just to keep conversation going.