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Phillip Wyatt: Having to Lipread

Phillip was born in 1959 in Bristol. He attended a local special school for deaf children in Bristol from the age of two. Then at age eleven he went to a residential special school for deaf children in Surrey, continuing on to the school's residential sixth form college.

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Here Philip describes the difficulty of having to lipread in lessons.

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The teaching was of a good standard, but having to lip read all day was exhausting. I never enjoyed Science. I found it impossible to lip read the teacher. I didn’t understand what was going on and inevitably everything I wrote down was wrong. The teacher used to get annoyed with me. Worse than Science was Metalwork. I hated it. I absolutely loathed it! We used to have to use some sort of file on the metal. I hated the sensation of it - eeuuurrggghh!

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