Get to know the passionate educators behind Learn to Lipread.
Anastasia creates warm, welcoming classes where learners feel supported, encouraged, and valued. Known for her creative teaching style, compassion, and patience, she enjoys helping people build confidence, develop new skills, and connect with others in a friendly and inclusive environment.
She is an ATLA trained lipreading teacher with over 15 years’ experience working in education.
Helen has been deaf all her life, and so she brings a deeply personal understanding to her teaching.
With 30+ years of teaching experience, she is passionate about helping people come to terms with their deafness and discover the confidence that comes with effective communication.
Hello, I'm Anastasia. As a teenager I realised I couldn't hear my friends. Then followed years of miscommunications and problems at work and in my social life before I finally agreed to try hearing aids. So I deeply understand the daily challenges, the frustration, and the sense of isolation that accompanies changes in hearing.
Discovering lipreading was a turning point for me. It provided practical strategies to navigate conversations, rebuilt my confidence, and fundamentally changed how I interact with the world around me. It was this transformative experience that inspired me to help others find that same empowerment.
I am a fully qualified lipreading teacher, trained and certified to deliver structured, highly supportive, and interactive lessons tailored to the hard of hearing community.
In addition to teaching, my background as an artist heavily influences my approach. I believe learning should be creative, engaging, and visually stimulating. By combining my professional qualifications with artistic visual tools, I aim to make every class not just a place to learn, but a welcoming community where we can all share, grow, and connect.
— Anastasia Osborne, Lipreading teacher and artist