Could use some ideas!

Good Morning Guys! :)
I have something I want to bounce off you all:
For my young adult lit class (which is yes, all about young adult authors and reading things that young adults read, and how to bring new yal books into the classroom and connect them to things the students would want to read).
For this class we have a big final project to do, and the first part of it we have to do research on an issue, question, concept, topic, or whatever that we want to know more about that we could relate to young adult lit books. An example of this would be look at the question: how does violence affect young adults? then you do research on violence and then you narrow your search to eating disorders, or cyber bulling, or something. When we finish this research we are then going to use the "topic" to write a big final paper, that concerns what we did research over. So if you did eating disorders you would write a story about a girl with an eating disorder and whatever.
I have been thinking about having my topic be deafness, however, I don't know if I can narrow my search in that enough to be able to write a piece on it.
If anyone has any idea as to how I could narrow my search for deafness and make a story that would have to do with young adults.
I have two weeks to figure this out, so if you think that its kind of pointless or too broad I still have time to change, but just wanted to get some ideas!
Thanks!