Are there any tips for lip reading? Can't do it, and I don't hear well, so I'm trying to find something that helps besides hearing aids. (They are outrageously expensive!)

I think you can "hear" a person's emotions in all sorts of ways. They sort of emanate what they are feeling if that makes sense. Whether it's the language of the eyes or body language, certain people can pick it up. It's sort of one or the other for me.