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It means deaf. Just a political correctness, like Afro-American instead of Negro.
So blind would be слабовидящий.

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Your irony is not so relevant here, since while there are people COMPLETELY deaf or blind, there are also lots of people with more or less severe problems but with some PARTIAL ability to see/hear. The cure of those people can be quite different.

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There is no iriny in my aswer, at first. I think that political correctness is very good idea, I regret for if you don`t.
Formerly "школа для глухих" meaned school for people who are completely deaf AND who have partial ability to hear. Now we call the same school "школа для слабослышащих".

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I suspect the idiomatic English expression would be “hard-of-hearing” or “hearing-impaired” (as in “Closed-captioned for the deaf and hard-of-hearing”).

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Actually from the way it seems the closest term in English would be hard of hearing (seeing as hearing impaired is considered not PC in America)

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Probably hard of hearing as the Deaf community doesn't like the term hearing impaired.

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Глухой (deaf) and слабослышащий (partially deaf) are not the same. "Policitally correct", like Afro-American instead of Nigger (yes, Negro is not that), would be люди с проблемами слуха, literally people with hearing problems.

Similarly, blind is слепой. Visually impared is слабовидящий. Visuappy impared person CAN potentially see something, for eample, fuzzy spots instead of objects. Just like hearing impared can hear something, for example, really loud sounds.

As for "школа для слабослышащих", if I would have to guess, it may mean, that they also accept kids, which are not completely deaf.

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O, is it normally to say "Negro"? Can I say: "Who? Obama? Oh, I`v heared smth about that Negro"?

"Слабослышащие" and "люди с проблемами слуха" are the same. Absolutely. And both are policitally correct forms for "глухой", if we talk about type of school, not about medicine.

And, please, if you`d like to tell me something more about political correctness in russian, do that somewhere else. My english is too bad to talk here.

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I just asked someone from here. To our knowledge, what is banned is the word Nigger. The word Negro ("black" in Spanish) is not good in USA probably because it sounds like the other one, the banned. In Spanish-speaking Latin America it is OK to use Negro to refer to black people (depending on how you say it, of course).

If someone can correct me, I would appreciate.

Back to the topic.

Люди с проблемами слуха are people with hearing problems, whether they are completely deaf or not, they have problems. Слабослышащие, people, who literally "do not hear well", may actually hear something, just "not well". I think the first term is more broad.

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Actually, now as I think of it, "school for deaf" may have refered to both "deaf" and "hearing with problems", and the word "deaf" about the last ones is indeed not good.

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Both terms are bureaucratic and appeared in the context of political correctness. I remember the times, when there was no that terms in Russian. Люди с проблемами слуха is probably more accurate term, but it`s not more broad just because it`s too long and clumsy.

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Ехаctly. The word "глухой" (I know nothing about english word "deaf") is not good at all, even for compleatly deaf people, for the same reason as terms "инвалид" or "психически больной" are not good.

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Being a native Russian speaker, I always treated words глухой and слепой as and . They were also used to exaggerate things: "дедушка глухой, ничего не слышит", but the exaggeration was always obvious.

Now suppose there is a kid who can hear, but not very well. In fact, I knew a person with a kid, who could hear well, but at times he was suddenly getting deaf for some period. In old Russia he would end up going to the "school for deafs". And he would be called "deaf". While he is actually not.

How to refer to such a kid?

English word "deaf" to my knowledge is the exact translation of "глухой".

I'm sure that the medical term for "deaf" is ok in both languages. And I agree that societies better use a milder term in public texts.

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>"Слабослышащие" and "люди с проблемами слуха" are the same. Absolutely.

No, they are not!

"Слабослышащий" [not hearing well] is about a person who can hear! It cannot be used to refer to a completely deaf person!

While "человек с проблемами слуха" [person with hearing problems] could also refer to somebody who cannot hear at all!

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Sorry, you should read

"I always treated words глухой and слепой as completely deaf and completery blind"

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>Formerly "школа для глухих" meaned school for people who are completely deaf AND who have partial ability to hear.

Exactly, and calling the second type "deaf" was incorrect. It was just wrong! They did not make the politically correct form of "deaf", they just made sure that people with partial abilities are called so.

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How to refer to such a kid?
"Он плохо слышит".

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"Слабослышащий" is used in public texts to refer to a completely deaf person just like "глухой" was (and sometimes is) used for a person who can hear.

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