I Can't Hear You in the Dark: How to Learn and Teach Lipreading
Betty Woerner Carter has taught lipreading for 13 years to hard-of-hearing and deaf adolescents and adults. Because of her own hearing impairment she became involved in lipreading, and developed her own curriculum and methods of teaching based on her research and teaching experience.She taught lipreading at Scottsdale Community College and throughout the greater Phoenix area. She has participated in Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Self Help for the Hard of Hearing. Furthering oral education for children is an interest of hers.She served as Executive Director of Girl Scout Councils in Omaha, Nebraska and Central New Jersey and as a staff member of the Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. based in Boston, Massachusetts. She was Executive Director of the YWCA in Denver, Colorado. Her professional career spans more than thirty years in administration and education.Betty holds Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees from the University of Nebraska, and has taken course work at Harvard University. She lives in Scottsdale, Arizona with her daughter and son-in-law.