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title: "The Social Consequences of Hearing Loss: Are Hearing Aids Enough?"
description: "ADA offers programming and support to audiologists and students who are or who desire to be autonomous practitioners in the field of Audiology."
url: "https://www.audiologist.org/resources/educate/audacity-archive/item/the-social-consequences-of-hearing-loss-are-hearing-aids-enough"
date: "2026-06-26T21:39:15+00:00"
language: "en-GB"
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#  The Social Consequences of Hearing Loss: Are Hearing Aids Enough?

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**Presentation Date:** 27 September 2025

**Duration:** 1:14:26

**Return to:** [AuDacity Archive](https://www.audiologist.org/audacity-archive)

Research suggests that many persons with hearing loss lack effective coping skills and tend to avoid social interactions, often deepening their isolation and loneliness. This course explores the relationship between hearing loss and social connectedness, including how properly fitted hearing aids and other audiological interventions might promote better social engagement through improved communication in multi-talker, noisy situations, reduced listening-related fatigue, restored music enjoyment, increased confidence and positive social impact.

**Attendees will be able to:**

- Define social disconnectedness and its impact on daily living
- Describe the relationship between age-related hearing loss and social connectedness
- Describe how the fitting of hearing aids could improve the various facets of social engagement

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**Speaker:** Brian Taylor, Au.D.

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