Comments on: How much hearing loss is needed to be labeled as deaf?

By: Propane Nightmares.

Propane Nightmares. — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 13:32:17 +0000

One ear, or both ears.

It could be mild, moderate to profound.

If your needed an hearing aid, it’s classed as a disability. But even without them, your still classed as disabled.

By: cowboy69154

cowboy69154 — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:58:47 +0000

MY WIFE HAS HALF EARDRUM ON BOTH EARS AND 1/4TH OF HER HEARING BONES GONE IN BOTH EARS AND THE LAW SAYS SHE IS NOT DEAF BUT THE DOCTORS SAY SHE IS

By: chiliswoman

chiliswoman — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:53:00 +0000

The amount of hearing you have lost can be quantified. In the US it is a specific quantity of loss that kicks in benefits. Different benefits require different degrees of deafness.

Depending on the nature of your deafness - deafness in one ear can be enough, but that is very uncommon. Ménière’s Disease is one cause of deafness where if only one ear is affected it would be enough.

In the UK ( as well as in the US to a degree) it is not how deaf you are, but how much your deafness requires you to be assisted in the tasks of daily living.

By: lfahn25

lfahn25 — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 21:11:05 +0000

You can be considered “Deaf”, when you don’t hear.
“hard of hearing” is when you have a hard time hearing things, and often need assistance.
However, for legal purposes, “deaf” is when you can no longer function without help of some sort.

By: tigerbaby76

tigerbaby76 — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 19:56:13 +0000

deaf means completely. So someone can be deaf in one ear and not in the other, but if there are varying degreees of hearing loss, they are just hearing impared do whatever percentage

By: Nah Z

Nah Z — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:35:30 +0000

Being hard of hearing is in itself a label for one’s hearing loss.

The term ‘deaf’ is usually reserved for those within the severe or profound bilateral hearing loss.

The only exception where a person can be deaf but not medically severely/profoundly hard of hearing is when titled as deafblind- deafblindness is in itself a unique syndrome where one sense cannot accommodate for the other, so we can label someone who is legally blind and mildly hard of hearing (but not culturally Deaf) as deaf in this circumstance.

That said, the term ‘Deaf’ (as in culturally Deaf) can apply to those with perfect hearing, mildly hard of hearing, or completely deaf (from a medical standpoint)- there is no ‘cut off’ or restriction.

So to sum it up, assuming you have normal vision, if you are a signing Deaf person you can label yourself as Deaf, but from a medical standpoint, if your other ear is not affected, you aren’t deaf.

By: Mister

Mister — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:56:11 +0000

Can you hear this message? HOW ABOUT NOW?

By: edoedo

edoedo — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 02:40:47 +0000

I am deaf. And my both ears are deaf.
But if hearing person has one deaf ear is half deaf and hearing; but will not be as good hear as others.