Shouting won't help
Subtitle: why I--and 50 million other Americans--can't hear you
By: Katherine Bouton
Edition: Large print edition.
Series: Thorndike Press large print health, home & learning; Thorndike Press large print health, home & learning
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 491
ISBN-13: 9781410459930
Subjects: Deaf women; Deafness; Biography
Description: For twenty-two years, Katherine Bouton had a secret that grew harder to keep every day: she had gone profoundly deaf in her left ear; her right was getting worse. Audiologists agree that we're experiencing a national epidemic of hearing impairment. At present, 50 million Americans suffer some degree of hearing loss. Using her own experience as a guide, Bouton examines the problem personally, psychologically, and physiologically, illuminating the startling effects of this invisible disability.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Losing it; title: Voices : Ben Luxon; title: Why?; title: Voices : Ross Wank; title: Bring in 'da noise!; title: Voices : Jacqui Metzger; title: You can't see it, but I can't hear you; title: Voices : Toni Iacolucci; title: Am I deaf or just dumb?; title: Voices : Jay Alan Zimmerman; title: "They don't scream, 'I'm wearing hearing aids!!!'"; title: Voices : Richard Einhorn; title: And then you have to pay for it; title: Voices : Robert Astle; title: Cyborg : cochlear implants; title: Voices : Lorie Singer; title: Wig tape, and that pig outdoors; title: Voices : Karin Olsoe; title: How to be a deaf theater editor, and other challenges of real life; title: Voices : Isaiah Jackson; title: The ugly stepsisters : tinnitus and vertigo; title: Voices : Melissa; title: Chicks and fish do it. Why can't we?; title: Voices : Eugene Kaplan; title: In the land of the near deaf.