• If you are at a restaurant or bar, sit
in a place where you cannot see a television monitor because the visual
distraction will decrease your abilities to speechread (i.e., read lips) and to pay attention to conversation
that is occurring at your table.
• If you have a “better ear”, that is, one
which has more hearing than the other, select seating or positioning that will
allow you to have your dining partner on your better side.
• At a restaurant, choose a padded
booth because the padding will provide a buffer to other noise in the
restaurant. Sit with your back to the rest of the room, especially if your
hearing aids have directional microphones so that your hearing aids will not amplify
noise that is coming from behind.
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I have a colleague who has a significant hearing loss. We went to a restaurant for lunch and there was a TV monitor playing the news across from our table. We experienced several communication breakdowns during our conversation (i.e., "Huh?"; "Say what?"). Finally he said, "Look, we're going to have to change places, I can't concentrate on your face with that playing over your shoulder." I had often heard that people with hearing loss should "close the window if the curtain is flapping in the wind" because it compromises their ability to speechread. The ubiquitous TV monitors in what seems like every restaurant these days is a modern version of the curtain flapping in the wind.
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