How do I talk to someone with a hearing loss?
Imagine yourself becoming very old, senile and beginning to suffer from hearing loss and you still want to interact with your family and friends. However sometimes understanding them is difficult. So, how would want them to talk with you, so that you can understand them better? Their voice should be..
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1 solution
Speaking more quietly doesn't help as it makes difficult in general to understand someone, even with a hearing loss, cause you wouldn't realize one speaking, if you are explicitly focusing on his/her voice.
Speaking loudly or shouting distorts the voice and also makes it more difficult to speak clearly and accurate.
People with a case of hearing loss usually loose the ability the understand high pitched sound first. Therefore speaking in a higher voice worsens the situations and hints that the answer is actually: Using a deeper voice.