When you first meet a hearing impaired boy or girl, you will notice some things that are different. Hearing impaired children usually wear hearing aids. Some my talk in sign language. Their speech may sound different.
People use different words to talk about people who have hearing losses.
Hearing Impaired refers to any kind of hearing loss, from great to small. Deaf refers only to a very great loss. Hard of Hearing refers to losses which are not as great. Whether children are deaf or hard of hearing, they are called hearing impaired. And in some ways their lives will be different from yours.