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[zvm]

Hi people,

Here's my doubt: Do you say: "hearing impaired people" or "impaired hearing people"? As both words are modifying "people" I'm confussed about the order they should go.

Thanks a lot!
zvm (Veronica)

[LucentShade]

It would be "hearing-impaired people" hearing modifies impaired here, because it tells what kind of impairment the people have.

[pinenut]

You'd better get used to this type of syntactical structure.

physically challenged people = the disabled
an intellectually challenged person = a dumb person
a technologically challenged person = a person having hard time learning technological stuff

You can replace 'challenged' with 'impaired'.