hey, am I the only one that's okay with this? Well I think you might not have made your intentions clear or stated it properly. Yeah, asking her how well she can hear/her degree of hearing loss would be a no, especially right off the bat. but it's perfectly acceptable to at least ask someone how you should communicate with them - if they read lips, or if they want you to speak more slowly/clearly, or write on a notepad, etc. But you should at least have a better intention than to just satisfy your curiosity about her hearing loss. if that's all you want to know, i suppose you could just ask her, "hey for future reference, how would you like me to communicate with you?" or something along those lines. but of course, introduce yourself first, common courtesy, small talk, blah blah the whole shebang. I'm sure you already planned on that though.
