Smart Hearing: Strategies, Skills, and Resources for Living

Smart Hearing: Strategies, Skills, and Resources for Living Better with Hearing Loss

Katherine Bouton learned to navigate the maze of hearing loss on her own. In this book, she hopes to make that journey easier for others. As AARPâ€™s hearing loss columnist and author of two previous books on hearing loss, she shares what sheâ€™s learned in funny, exasperated, fact-filled prose.Katherine Bouton is the author of â€œShouting Wonâ€™t Helpâ€ (2013), a memoir of her experience with adult-onset hearing loss, and â€œLiving Better with Hearing Loss: A Guide to Health, Happiness, Love, Sex, Work, Friendsâ€¦ and Hearing Aidsâ€ (2015). â€œShouting Wonâ€™t Helpâ€ was excerpted as a three-part series in Bloomberg View.She wrote a weekly blog about hearing health for AARP from January 2014 to May 2017. (The blog appeared biweekly in 2017.) Her personal blog, katherinebouton.com, has appeared since 2014. She is also a contributor to Psychology Today and HuffPost. She has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Hearing Loss Association of America since 2013 and serves on the executive committee as secretary of the board. She is also President of the New York City Chapter of HLAA. In January 2014, she was invited to represent the consumer perspective at a symposium on hearing health held by the National Academies of Science, Medicine and Technology. A video of that talk is available on the NASEM website. She grew up in Baltimore, Md., and graduated from Vassar College with a degree in history. She had a 40-year career in journalism, including 22 years as a senior editor at The New York Times. She was deputy editor of the New York Times Magazine from 1998 to 2008, and Books editor for the Times in 2008 and 2009. She has written for The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker and many other publications. She is now a freelance writer and speaker on hearing-health since 2010.She has had progressive bilateral hearing loss since 1977, of unknown origin, and currently uses a hearing aid and a cochlear implant. â€œ Smart Hearing : is a must-read treasure for people with hearing loss, and those who are close to people with hearing loss. The author's encyclopedic knowledge of the topic is laid out in helpful plain English, with examples and explanations in a warm and no-nonsense tone. Katherine Bouton's personal experiences and those of others, as told to her, make for an immensely readable and practical guide to the subject of hearing loss and related conditions like tinnitus and vertigo. She writes about causes and effects, how to find an audiologist, what to buy and where to buy it (and what not to buy), and how to pay for it. She discusses PSAPâ€™s, Over-the-Counter Hearing Aids, and the booming business of other alternatives to traditional hearing aids. This book is also useful for those who don't yet need it, or who think they don't -- describing the mindset of denial and delay that is common in those first encountering hearing loss. Bouton also describes the cognitive impact of unaddressed hearing loss, in great and convincing detail.â€- Jeanne Pinder, Founder, CEO of clearhealthcosts.com â€œKatherine Boutonâ€™s Smart Hearing is an excellent guide to living a better life with hearing loss. Through personal anecdotes and extensive research, Smart Hearing provides a road map for people at all stages of their hearing loss journey. If you think you may have hearing loss, or know you do, this book is required reading.â€ - Shari Eberts, founder of LivingWithHearingLoss.com â€œA beautifully, clearly written, and fascinating book. indispensable reading, whether or not you have a hearing loss.â€ - Dinitia Smith, Author of â€œThe Honeymoonâ€ and a former Culture reporter at The New York Times.
Country USA
Manufacturer RiverWest Press
Binding Paperback
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780692164983
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Manufacturer	RiverWest Press
Binding	Paperback
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780692164983
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Smart Hearing: Strategies, Skills, and Resources for Living Better with Hearing Loss

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