“…However, listeners with hearing impairments may have more difficulty recognizing emotions from vocal cues (Christensen et al, 2019), and instead rely on visual cues such as facial expressions and body language (Hopyan-Misakyan et al, 2009;Most & Aviner, 2009;Waaramaa et al, 2018), particularly with greater degrees of hearing-impairment (Picou et al, 2018) or in noisy environments (Chatterjee et al, 2015). These difficulties present during early childhood but may be mitigated by explicit training (Yeshoda et al, 2020). Similar cues drive emotional expression in music and are likewise not easily accessible to hearing aid users (Chasin & Russo, 2004).…”