Background: communication strategies (CS) are mechanisms used to facilitate speech comprehension and the transmission of a message to another speaker.
Aim: to characterize the communication strategies used by 20 adults, fitted with hearing aids, with moderate sensorineural hearing loss.
Method: a 60 minute interview, with an audiologist, with and without the hearing aid.
Results: the CS which prevailed were those of a cognitive and palliative nature in the situations with and without the hearing aid.
Conclusion: most of the individuals used the communication strategies to facilitate the recognition of the message.
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