Learning to sing

[elsie07]

I want to audition for my college's music program, but one of the requirements is singing ability.  The audition consists of major and minor scales and triads, tonal memory check, range check, and sight reading.  I love to sing and have been in choir before, but I have some hearing loss and it is pretty difficult for me to sing on key without someone singing with me who I can listen to.  Sometimes I can't even hear myself, or the sound is distorted.  My professor who does the audition knows all about my hearing loss, which will help in the audition, but I am still concerned about it.  I don't have an audition date set, but it will be within the next two months, probably.

Does anyone have ideas for singing for people with hearing problems?  I'm teaching myself (very slowly) to sing by feeling my vocal cords, but that will not be sufficient for the audition.

Thanks.

Edit: I should probably mention that I can hear instrumental sounds better than I can hear voices...I play piano, and for the most part, I don't have too much trouble with that.  It's the choral requirements that I'm concerned about.

[timothy42b]

I sometimes have to play trombone while wearing earplugs. 

On trombone you have to have the note fixed firmly in your brain, because the instrument will give you an infinite number of pitches (unlike piano or organ). 

If the note is fixed in my brain I generally play it in tune even if I don't hear it perfectly.  Actually if I don't hear the note in my brain first I'm probably going to miss the note anyway. 

I think you could learn to do this fairly quickly by practicing intervals with and without the piano (work up and down by half steps) concentrating on hearing inside your head instead of outside your ear.