Well, there's lots of different reasons it can happen, but it's important to remember that in today's world, there's all sorts of technology to help the hard of hearing live a perfectly normal life.
That love blossomed at her first internship, working on electronic devices to provide a sense of sound to people who are profoundly deaf or hard of hearing.
Language is just so fundamental to connecting with one another, yet understanding someone who speaks a different language, or trying to follow a conversation if you're deaf or hard of hearing can be a real challenge.
But the black beetles took no notice of the agitation, and groped about the hearth in a ponderous elderly way, as if they were short-sighted and hard of hearing, and not on terms with one another.
OVERALL, BEING DEAF OR HARD OF HEARING IS OFTEN NOT SEEN AS A DISABILITY BY MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY, BUT RATHER A CULTURAL IDENTITY THAT STEMS FROM THEIR DIFFERENT EXPERIENCE.
Not only do scenographers transcribe legal and medical hearings, they also provide closed captioning services to deaf and hard of hearing folks anyways.