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HOH and deaf is?
 
A person can be considered big "D" Deaf even if they still have residual hearing.

Conversely, so can someone who is HoH.

It's all based on that person's cultural identity.

If you are speaking in terms of audiograms, that is a different story, but even that varies from one audi to another.
 
Is deaf and HOH just a another name for each other?
 
I kinda' like to make it simple (sort of)....Deaf is not hearing anything at all and HOH is being able to hear something. Sounds sort of "elementary" I know, but makes sense to me.
 
DeafLissa90 said:
Is deaf and HOH just a another name for each other?
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They're two ways to describe hearing loss. Deaf usually means culturally deaf and HoH means a person who has enough hearing to be able to understand speech with hearing aids or other forms of amplification.
 
They way I've always understood is that Deaf always referred to someone who was a part of the Deaf Culture regardless of their hearing status. HoH and deaf were medically used to describe how much hearing they had. HoH to me means one can hear with sound amplification, and deaf mean one would have very little benefit from sound amplification.

However all three can be fluent in ASL and be very much a part of Deaf culture. Just my thoughts.
 
DeafLissa90 said:
Is deaf and HOH just a another name for each other?
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I was told by a doctor deaf mean you can not hear any thing, hoh of mean you can hear sounds , . I wanted to have surgery to hear better and I was told it would be too much of a risk for me. I had a 50 % of losing the hearing I did have. If I was deaf I would had nothing to lose if the surgery went wrong.
 
deaf mean you can't hear at all and hard f hearing mean you can hear a little bit but sometimes miss word and sounds.
 
Because growing up all my notes and letters from audi's and people have always said I am deaf
 
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