Hearing impairment

A hearing impairment is a decrease in one's ability to hear (i.e. perceive auditory information). While some cases of hearing loss are reversible with medical treatment, many lead to a permanent disability (often called deafness).

Resources

There are many different assistive technologies such as hearing aids available to people who are hearing impaired. There are also Hearing dogs which are a category of Assistance dogs. The advent of the internet's World-Wide-Web and closed captioning has given the hearing impaired unprecedented access to information. Electronic mail and online chat have virtually eliminated the need for hearing impaired people to use a third-party Telecommunications Relay Service in order to communicate with the hearing and other hearing impaired people.

Related Topics:
Assistive technologies - Hearing dog - Assistance dog - Internet - World-Wide-Web - Closed captioning - Electronic mail - Chat - Telecommunications Relay Service

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