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hearing impaired

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hearing impaired
Euph. deaf or nearly deaf. This program is closed-captioned for our hearing-impaired viewers. His mother happens to be hearing impaired, so he learned to sign at an early age.
See also: hearing, impaired


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1 -- 2) At left, Allison Haynes, who is hearing impaired, reads lips to serve customers in the Vons bakery in Chatsworth.
The device employs the company's piezoelectric bone conduction technology to transmit sound vibration from the skull to the auditory nervous system to enable the hearing impaired and the elderly with difficulty in hearing to effectively communicate via a cellphone.
In July, IFOS's executive board members gathered in Sorrento, Italy, and decided to establish Hearing International (HI) as an international organization devoted exclusively to working for the hearing impaired in the world.
 
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