hard-of-hearing
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“Even though it was originally made for the deaf and hard of hearing, it really has a huge following with college kids,” said BrieAnne McKenna, marketing director at Sonic Alert.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026
"For hard of hearing people, phone banking is challenging, and for visually impaired people, online banking can be really difficult," Miss Kinsella added.
From BBC • Oct. 23, 2025
The school, founded 165 years ago in San Francisco, is a state-run boarding school for the deaf, where nearly all employees, students and staff are deaf or hard of hearing.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 8, 2025
Speech-to-text programs are becoming more popular for everyday tasks like hands-free dictation, helping people who are visually impaired, and transcribing speech for those who are hard of hearing.
From Science Daily • Nov. 21, 2024
She was hard of hearing in one ear, no doubt deafened by her own screaming.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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