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Story from the Reading Evening Post.
A Reading lip speaker has been nominated in a national award scheme.
Sara Scanlon, of Melrose Avenue, East Reading, has been a freelance lip speaker for 12 years, helping deaf people at work, in court, in hospital or in education.
She has been nominated in the Communication Professional of the Year section of the Signature Annual Award.
She said there were only about 36 to 40 lip speakers working in this country, who help people who lipread by mouthing words silently to them in circumstances when they would find it difficult to lip-read themselves.
She said: "I am thrilled to be nominated for this award. When I was at university, I had a profoundly deaf friend who told me I was very easy to lip-read. Her course was in linguistics and included signing and she became increasingly interested in lip speaking."
Jim Edwards, chief executive of Signature, said: "As well as working to develop training programmes for lip-speakers, Sara has also taught a lip-speaking course at Manchester Metropolitan University. We are thrilled our awards give us a chance to draw attention to her achievements."
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