Defining Characteristics of Hearing Impaired The characteristics of hearing impaired can be categorized as behavioral or motor characteristics. The various behavioral characteristics of hearing impaired is a bad attention to what is being said by another person. This condition makes the victim appear as absent minded. Another characteristic of hearing impaired is the fact that the sufferers communicate by use of gestures instead of responding to persons communicating with them (McCormick, 1995). The sufferer may also turn or node their heads in response to a spoken message. In some instances these sufferers have underdeveloped speech abilities. However, new discoveries include programmable hearing aids that provide credible assistance for all the affected parties as established within the paper. Most hearing impaired people usually speak in a monotonous tone and find it difficult to follow the instructions. These sufferers in many instances follow other people and are not very eager to take part in conversations and different types of discussions. Another outstanding characteristic of these people is that they work best only when in a group as opposed to doing things individually. In addition, the sufferers turn to be actors rather than being the real people that they really are (Drift, Brocaar & Zanten, 1987). They are mostly preoccupied with things rather than with human beings and react to noise, rather than words. “The motor characteristics of the hearing impaired include having difficulty in balancing which in turn leads to problems and delayed motor abilities” (Gordon, 2012). These people can also experience some problems with motor speed which is manifested by the sufferer’s inability to process information properly and the inability to complete motor movements in good time (Ivashkevich, 2006). The children who became hearing impaired due to illness or accident always become skilled lip readers though they can only decipher 20-30% of spoken language. The affected may seem to understand proceedings within the classroom; however, it is highly likely that they misinterpret the information or miss the verbal interaction of their speaking counterparts. Study of Visual Arts Serve and the Needs of Hearing Impaired While visual arts may be assumed to be an area in which the hearing impaired people won’t have a problem in understanding, research and experience has proven otherwise. These people have to get an additional interpretation aids such as audio systems that explain the objects that are placed in front of them, adding further meaning and proper understanding to the images and artifacts. Visual arts have widely played a role in influencing the views of society on the humanity of the hearing impaired (Buchanan, 1990). Research shows that many hearing impaired painters, sculptors and photographers are aware of the pivotal role of their works of art which contained mostly a political agenda. Visual arts has also seen many hearing impaired perform in theatres. Many studies have been conducted aimed at diagnosing social behavior and emotional disturbance, using drawing as a testing instrument. Davis and Hoopes in 1975 applied the H-T-P Test (House