This research identified dangerous situations that the hearing-impaired may experience and
understood pre-actions, cognitive condition and behavioral responses to recognize danger from
the viewpoint of the disabled. For this, Focus Group Interview was conducted with 23 people
with hearing disability, and data were collected. As a result of the analysis, 65 concepts, 17
lower categories and 9 higher categories were developed; the higher categories include
‘Faced dangerous situations for not being able to hear’, ‘Faced dangerous situations for
not being able to talk’, ‘Asked for help in advance’, ‘Recognized danger situations in
different senses', ‘Late cognition and response’, ‘Information errors’, ‘Limited requests
for rescue’, ‘Psychologically unstable’, and ‘Social prejudices against the
hearing-impaired’. Based on the result, the research presented practical and political
implications for cognition of and response to dangerous situations of the hearing-impaired
in disasters and dangerous situations.