A Quiet World
Subtitle: Living with Hearing Loss
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: October 11, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780300084399
Subjects: Coping with personal problems; Disability: social aspects; Otorhinolaryngology (ENT); Popular medicine; Hearing disorders; Services For The Physically Challenged; Sociology Of The Mentally And Physically Challenged; Social Science; Consumer Health; Health/Fitness; Popular works; Hearing; Health & Fitness / Hearing; Handicapped; Deafness; Hearing aids
First sentence: On one of those treasured visits to my parents' home on Bainbridge Island, Washington, I use a magic pad to communicate with my eighty-year-old mother, who four years previously took the final step from hearing-impaired to deaf as she gave up wearing her by then useless hearing aids.