Hearing Loss
Many terms are used for hearing loss; commonly used terms are hard of hearing, deafened, deaf and oral deaf.
A person who is hard of hearing has a mild to profound hearing loss.
A person who is deafened has a significant hearing loss and may have lost their hearing gradually or suddenly.
Persons who are deafened or hard of hearing may use devices such as hearing aids, cochlear implants, FM systems or they may rely on speech-reading (also known as lip reading).
A person who is deaf has little or no functional hearing and may depend upon visual rather than auditory communication.
Oral deaf refers to a person who is deaf and whose preferred mode of communication is verbal and auditory.
The person may or may not use sign language.
Did You Know?
The Canadian Hard of Hearing Association estimates that as many as one out of every ten Canadians have some degree of hearing loss; what’s more, this number is growing.
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