Hearing Loss

HowExpert Guide to Hearing Loss is a go-to guide for all things hearing loss. This book contains information that you won’t get anywhere else, written by an expert in the field. It includes everything from understanding hearing loss and hearing technology to the best ways to communicate with your loved ones in difficult listening situations.

Hearing loss can be frustrating, but in fact it's common and treatable. Hearing Loss For Dummies, written by top experts in the field in collaboration with AARP, walks you through how to get the help you need to clearly hear the sounds of life—whether you're at home, at work, or out and about. And hearing health is critical: Hearing loss can increase your risk of falls and injuries, isolation and depression, and even cognitive decline and dementia.

Featuring the author's own experiences of deafness, this audiobook is about how to understand, live and thrive with hearing loss - a humorous yet informative place to turn for the millions of people in the UK who have hearing loss or deafness. Including interviews with experts from the RNID, audiologists, deaf activists and people who use and teach sign language, as well as facts and anecdotes.

Abigail Heringer made her television debut as an instant fan-favorite on season 25 of The Bachelor. Stepping out of the limousine, she approached her bachelor with a playful declaration: she would be staring at his lips all night for two compelling reasons—her profound deafness since birth, and because he had some nice lips! But Abigail’s journey wasn’t always marked by such confidence. Growing up deaf and introverted, she dreaded being the center of attention, fearing her disability would burden those around her.

Now, hearing-health advocates, consultants, and speakers Shari Eberts and Gael Hannan offer a new skills-based approach to hearing loss that is centered not on hearing better, but on communicating better.

I'm Not Stupid, I Have Hearing Loss is a story of hearing loss and hearing aids. Including hearing and brain care tips, the author shares experiences of having hearing loss and wearing hearing aids.

One year after being diagnosed with hearing loss, Rayne’s hearing keeps getting worse, even with aids. It’s a struggle to maintain friendships and keep up in school, surfing is now a wipeout, and she can’t understand her favorite singer’s lyrics. But worst of all, Rayne’s parents are pushing for her to get cochlear implants, a surgery Rayne’s not convinced is worth the risks and challenges. Rayne begs her parents to consider other options, but they’re not budging.

“I never wanted to be hearing. I said this out loud in my TED talk, and the audience went bug-eyed, struggling to process this heresy. How could anyone not want to be hearing? I wasn’t anti-hearing. I just felt my life would be simpler if everyone else were deaf.” So begins the compelling story of acclaimed TED speaker Rebecca Knill as she guides us through a life shaped by hearing loss. Throughout, Knill offers eye-opening insights into disability and celebrates the power of technology to level the playing field.

Do you notice your loving kids are using headphones more? It might be that they are in danger of hearing loss. In this book, you will discover the depths of solitude in this gripping story, revealing the complex relationship between the seductive charm of private soundscapes and the dangers they may hide. This book, which expertly analyzes the subtleties of auditory health, untangles the complex web of teenage headphone use and illuminates the tenuous relationship between the allure of music and the perilous consequences of hearing loss.

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In this new groundbreaking book, Dr. Mark J. Syms, "the hearing loss physician", shares his nearly three decades of experience as a world-renowned ear doctor to help people on their road to better hearing.

As a child, Matt Hay didn’t know his hearing wasn’t the way everyone else processed sound—because of the workarounds he did to fit in, even the school nurse didn’t catch his condition at the annual hearing and vision checks. But by the time he was a prospective college student and couldn’t pass the entrance requirements for West Point, Hay’s condition, generated by a tumor, was unavoidable: his hearing was going, and fast. A personal soundtrack was Hay’s determined compensation for his condition.

Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to Hearing What I Hear, Seeing What I See and experience the compelling world of personal trauma and healing.

Have you ever felt abandoned, left behind, forgotten, and that the pain of this life was too much to bear? Well, I have. This book is about my struggles with trying to make sense out of tragedy and great loss, crying out to God for help, and learning to recognize and hear Gods still small yet mighty voice. This book is meant to offer hope, encouragement, and to challenge that we all can seek, find, and hear promptings from the Holy Spirit everyday. I will share some of God's great miracles, his deliverance, and his rescue plan for each of us. Yes, even you.

Twelve-year-old Kwame Powell isn't ready to deal with losing his grandmother, even as he and his family head to Ghana for her celebration of life. He's definitely not ready when he's sucked into a magical whirlpool that leads straight to Asamando, the Ghanaian underworld. There, he comes face to face with his grandmother, who is very much alive, and somehow still...a kid? Together with his best friend, Autumn, and a talkative aboatia named Woo, Kwame must battle angry nature gods, and stop the underworld from destroying the land of the living.