It is also the most trivialized. Hearing aids do not correct hearing as spectacles do vision. They amplify sounds. They try to be, but are not yet very, discriminating. Noise is heard easily, the human voice is elusive.
Most deafened people have tinnitus.
It is often the first symptom of hearing loss. The Deaf, the deafened, the hearing impaired do not have the same experiences or the same needs. The severely deaf person is, again, in a different situation from someone with a moderate loss. I use a capital D for the people who use Sign and identify with Deaf culture. An editor of The Advertiser regularly called me cloth-eared Shirley.