Respect the student s comfort level with their hearing loss. Until you know this, check in with the student privately or the DSS coordinator if you have any questions. Remember that the only sound that is coming across the ALD is what is going into the microphone. And, of course, remember the importance of visual cues in speech reading. Don t hold the mic so that it blocks the view of your mouth.
Overheads are the bane of hearing aid user s existence, for a couple of reasons.
Second, people tend to point at the slides and continue talking. This is difficult for hearing people to remember, and they often do not realize how important it is. I was getting computer instructions from someone on a tty that did not have a printer. The only way I could hear the person was when I was watching the tty display-which only displays about 25 characters at a time. I d miss the next instruction.