Play with placement around your hearing aid and your physical movement and location to see how the reception changes as you move around the room. Always make sure the volume is down before you put headphones on and then adjust it. Alternatively, see if having 1 hearing aid on T and the other on Mic works for you. Moustaches and accents make speech reading difficult if not impossible. Maybe one instructor s voice is easier for you to hear than another s, depending on your hearing loss.
Some instructors use lecture only, some require group discussion.
Some are organized and write outlines on the board. Finding out these kinds of characteristics ahead of time can greatly reduce strain in the classroom. Often you ll find you understood part of the sentence. This is very helpful to the speaker, and may help to reduce frustration on both your parts. Because of my hearing loss, I need you to look at me when you speak .