Shouting won't help : why I--and 50 million other Americans--can't hear you / Katherine Bouton.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Picador, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014Edition: First Picador editionDescription: x, 276 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781250043566 (pbk.)
  • 1250043565 (pbk.)
Other title:
  • Shouting will not help
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • RF 290 .B58 2014
Contents:
Introduction to the 2014 edition : How to talk to people with hearing loss -- Losing it -- Why? -- Bring in 'da noise! -- You can't see it, but I can't hear you -- Am I deaf or just dumb? -- "They don't scream, 'I'M WEARING HEARING AIDS!!!'" -- And then you have to pay for it -- Cyborg : Cochlear implants -- Wig tape, and that pig outdoors -- How to be a deaf theater editor, and other challenges of real life -- The ugly stepsisters : Tinnitus and vertigo -- Chicks and fish do it. Why can't we? -- Epilogue : In the land of the near deaf.
Summary: In this look at the widespread and commonly misunderstood phenomenon of hearing loss, Bouton recounts her own journey into deafness - and her return to the hearing world through the miracles of technology. She speaks with doctors, audiologists, neurobiologists, and others searching for causes and a cure, as well as with those who have experienced hearing loss, interweaving their stories with her own. It's an engaging and informative account of what it's like to live with an invisible disability - a must-read not only for those with hearing loss, who will recognize their stories in Bouton's own, but for their families, friends, employers, and caregivers.Other editions: Reproduction of (manifestation): Bouton, Katherine, 1947- Shouting won't help.
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"A Sarah Crichton book."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-261) and index.

Introduction to the 2014 edition : How to talk to people with hearing loss -- Losing it -- Why? -- Bring in 'da noise! -- You can't see it, but I can't hear you -- Am I deaf or just dumb? -- "They don't scream, 'I'M WEARING HEARING AIDS!!!'" -- And then you have to pay for it -- Cyborg : Cochlear implants -- Wig tape, and that pig outdoors -- How to be a deaf theater editor, and other challenges of real life -- The ugly stepsisters : Tinnitus and vertigo -- Chicks and fish do it. Why can't we? -- Epilogue : In the land of the near deaf.

In this look at the widespread and commonly misunderstood phenomenon of hearing loss, Bouton recounts her own journey into deafness - and her return to the hearing world through the miracles of technology. She speaks with doctors, audiologists, neurobiologists, and others searching for causes and a cure, as well as with those who have experienced hearing loss, interweaving their stories with her own. It's an engaging and informative account of what it's like to live with an invisible disability - a must-read not only for those with hearing loss, who will recognize their stories in Bouton's own, but for their families, friends, employers, and caregivers.

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