This study aims to explore the hot issues concerning hearing-impaired persons'communication, based on Citespace, which is used to make a visual analysis of SSCI journals from the Web of Science between 2000 and 2018. The results show that the hot research issues include hearing-impaired children's language development and early language intervention, and the life quality of hearing-impaired persons, and that the issues of most concern include the impact of different communication modes on language, the effect of multimodal communication skills on the early interventions in hearing-impaired you...