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If you think hearing loss is just a condition of old age-think again. In The Way I Hear It, Gael Hannan explodes one myth after another in a witty and insightful journey into life with hearing loss at every age. Blending personal stories with practical strategies, Gael shines a light onto a world of communication challenges: a marriage proposal without hearing aids in, pillow talk and other relationships, raising a child, going to the movies, dining out, ordering at the drive-thru, in the classroom, on the job and hearing technology. Part memoir, part survival guide, The Way I Hear It offers tips for effective communication, poetic reflections, and heart-warming stories from people she has m...
Hearing loss doesn’t come with an operating manual—until now. If you have hearing loss, you already know that the conventional approach to treatment is focused on hearing-aid technology. Without a handbook to help you figure out how to actually live with it, you’ve likely been getting by on information pieced together from various sources—and yet, communication often seems incomplete and unsatisfying. What’s missing from this hearing care model is the big picture—a real-life illustration of how hearing loss, its emotions, and its barriers affect every corner of your life. Now, hearing-health advocates, consultants, and speakers Shari Eberts and Gael Hannan offer a new skills-base...
Why do people like books, music, or movies that adhere consistently to genre conventions? Why is it hard for politicians to take positions that cross ideological boundaries? Why do we have dramatically different expectations of companies that are categorized as social media platforms as opposed to news media sites? The answers to these questions require an understanding of how people use basic concepts in their everyday lives to give meaning to objects, other people, and social situations and actions. In this book, a team of sociologists presents a groundbreaking model of concepts and categorization that can guide sociological and cultural analysis of a wide variety of social situations. Dra...
Hearing loss doesn't come with an operating manual--until now.If you have hearing loss, you already know that the conventional approach to treatment is focused on hearing-aid technology. Without a handbook to help you figure out how to actually live with it, you've likely been getting by on information pieced together from various sources--and yet, communication often seems incomplete and unsatisfying.What's missing from this hearing care model is the big picture--a real-life illustration of how hearing loss, its emotions, and its barriers affect every corner of your life. Now, hearing-health advocates, consultants, and speakers Shari Eberts and Gael Hannan offer a new skills-based approach ...
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If you or someone you love suffer from Meniere's disease, there is so much hope! Glenn Schweitzer was 24 years old and in his senior year of college when an attack of violent vertigo changed his life forever. He was diagnosed with Meniere's disease, a complex and debilitating chronic illness that causes vertigo, tinnitus, ear pressure, and progressive hearing loss. To this day, there is still no cure or even an understanding of what causes it. But he eventually found ways to cope and was able to take back his health, piece by piece. Through Glenn's terrifying, yet inspiring story, and with dozens of specific actionable techniques, you will be able to take back control of your life, too. You will be able to face your Meniere's disease without fear. You will learn to manage your symptoms and live in harmony with your disease. And most importantly of all, you will learn to thrive again. No matter how long you have suffered, this book will help you to get better. Meniere's disease will not define you. It cannot and will not ever be bigger than your dreams.
For twenty-two years, Katherine Bouton had a secret that grew harder to keep every day. An editor at The New York Times, at daily editorial meetings she couldn't hear what her colleagues were saying. She had gone profoundly deaf in her left ear; her right was getting worse. As she once put it, she was "the kind of person who might have used an ear trumpet in the nineteenth century." Audiologists agree that we're experiencing a national epidemic of hearing impairment. At present, 50 million Americans suffer some degree of hearing loss—17 percent of the population. And hearing loss is not exclusively a product of growing old. The usual onset is between the ages of nineteen and forty-four, an...
The surprising science of hearing and the remarkable technologies that can help us hear better 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 cost and stigma of hearing aids, the natural human tendency is to do nothing and hope for the best, usually while pretending that nothing is wrong. In Vo...
Diagnostic Vestibular Pocket Guide: Evaluation of Dizziness, Vertigo, and Imbalance is a “lab coat pocket guide” for clinicians and students who evaluate patients with balance disorders. This quick reference condenses all facets of the clinical evaluation to provide guidance in a range of situations, including appointment preparation, vestibular screening measures, and appropriate objective testing. Specific chapters target common disorders and evaluation, required modifications based on age, forming clinical impressions, and medical referral criteria. Key Features: * Succinct explanations of vestibular principles and test procedures * Compact and portable design for frequent use * Concise and approachable outline format for quick reference * A list of common abbreviations, and index ensures easy access during an appointment * 80 figures and tables * Appendix outlining key symptoms, signs, and management options for peripheral, central, and systemic conditions
Focuses on how market categories shape processes of production and consumption and how these activities in turn shape category systems. This volume explores topics such as: how new categories emerge, become enacted and gain consensus, how categories are used by market agents, and how category systems change over time.