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I teach my lip reading students to not say "repeat"! You get the same thing the same way and it doesn't help much. Ask them to restate or rephrase instead. Speaker must pause, think, probably state a more direct version (think tree rather than forest), and hopefully slow down and speak clearer also. I wear my badge that says "Hard of Hearing, please face me and speak clearly " whenever I go out. What a difference!

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@th1 Two great ideas, thank you. When working overseas in places where English wasn't the first language, I learned to automatically rephrase when it was apparent the person I was talking with didn't understand me. Too many people just repeated the same thing or spoke more loudly, which did no good.