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English
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"Our sense of hearing makes it easy to connect with the world and the people around us. The human system for processing sound is a biological marvel, an intricate assembly of delicate membranes, bones, receptor cells, and neurons. Yet many people take their ears for granted, abusing them with loud restaurants, rock concerts, and Q-tips. And then, eventually, most of us start to go deaf. Millions of Americans suffer from hearing loss. Faced with the...
Author
Publisher
Gallaudet University Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Addresses the acute need of hearing-impaired people to function at the highest level in their income-earning years. Batinovich presents step-by-step guidance in turning every challenge into an opportunity to become one's best self-advocate.
Author
Publisher
Advantage
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Hear and Understand author Dr. Eric Frederick has one central message - you are in control of your hearing loss. Push past the anxiety, fear, and denial associated with hearing loss, and more importantly, how to overcome its obstacles. Turn the pages of Hear and Understand, and start turning the corner to a better you. Inside, you will gain the resources and knowledge to: overcome anxiety and shake off the fear of hearing loss ; act quickly to preserve...
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Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
From a renowned media critic to a man with sudden and full hearing loss, Noel Holston ran the gauntlet of diagnoses, health insurance, and cochlear implant surgery. On a spring night in 2010, Noel Holston, a journalist, songwriter, and storyteller, went to bed with reasonably intact hearing. By dawn, it was gone, thus beginning a long process of hearing-restoration that included misdiagnoses, an obstinate health-insurance bureaucracy, failed cochlear-implant...
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Publisher
New York Review of Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The Hearing Trumpet is the story of 92-year-old Marian Leatherby, who is given the gift of a hearing trumpet only to discover that what her family is saying is that she is to be committed to an institution. But this is an institution where the buildings are shaped like birthday cakes and igloos, where the Winking Abbess and the Queen Bee reign, and where the gateway to the underworld is open. It is also the scene of a mysterious murder. Occult twin...