Deaf Awareness Week: 5 Surprising Facts About Life With Single-Sided Deafness

This week is Deaf Awareness Week!

Deaf Awareness Week is an opportunity to highlight how hearing loss affects daily life and to share ways others can offer meaningful support. Being deaf brings unique challenges—practical, emotional, and social—that not everyone will experience or fully understand.

This Deaf Awareness Week, I’m bringing attention to Single-Sided Deafness (SSD), a type of unilateral hearing loss, where a person has no or limited access to sound in one ear.