How hearing loss can affect your studies - BBC Young Reporter

"After two minutes of solid, focussed lip reading, I could sleep for about 30 minutes afterwards. It's that exhausting."

Ella started losing her hearing when she was 11.

It got rapidly worse and so has increasing impacted on her experiences at school, but she says getting cochlear implants and a support worker changed her life.
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