Hey. ReadingClayGirl. If you use and require a particular technology and the office doesn’t have it, ask them what they use as an alternative. Schools are not legally allowed to deny auxiliary and services because of cost or used by only one student. If something is needed for academics and accommodates the functional limits of your hearing loss, the college can’t deny you accommodations you require to access classes, if you are admitted. But colleges are allowed to substitute a comparable accommodation even if you aren’t using it yet. if it doesn’t work for to compensate for your functional limitations after a reasonable trial to get used to it, then you go back and demand something else. Other things such as a alternatives to a fire alarm that aren’t strictly needed for educational purposes may not be provided. You may already own some of those things that you could take with you. Perhaps VR could help you get funding for some of your assistive technology needs. I’d sure visit them.