Dinah Mandell says she couldn't understand teachers in Zoom classes when the pandemic struck.
Two deaf students who struggled to continue studying when face masks were made compulsory in colleges say they are proud of their A-level results.
And even when they were allowed back, they were often made to wear face masks as part of the government's guidelines.Dinah says having a clear face mask in school would've been a big benefit Dinah, who wears a hearing aid, tells Radio 1 Newsbeat she relied "heavily on seeing people's faces and lips to work out what someone is saying" so having a clear face mask in school would've been a big benefit.
"So when I started I was navigating Covid and also being a student with hearing loss at the same time, which had its challenges. She was studying languages and says she found it "really difficult during lockdown" because of a "lack of awareness".
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