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Hearing
Access Problems & Solutions for Functional Limitations Related to Hearing
This section covers the potential barriers that people with functional limitations related to hearing and hearing loss may encounter as they interface with the four different environments. This section does not address the Deaf who communicate with American Sign Language (ASL). See the Understanding Deaf Culture tab and the Communications Environment: Using Interpreters sections for access for the culturally deaf.
In this section, we describe common access issues experienced by people with functional limitations related to hearing and hearing loss; provide concrete examples of how those issues play out for survivors with these types of functional limitations; and offer suggestions for solving these problems and creating accessible services for these survivors.
Although we provide suggested solutions for each problem related to the barriers faced, we encourage you to also involve the survivor when crafting individualized solutions to environmental barriers for people with functional limitations related to hearing and hearing loss. Additionally, we want to make clear that the problems we highlight are examples only; they are neither exhaustive nor necessarily representative of all people with functional limitations related to hearing and hearing loss.
For background information on the characteristics of hearing loss, a description of who is affected and the types of issues experienced by people with hearing limitations, please refer to Understanding Disability: Hearing.
