Living Better with Hearing Loss: A Guide to Health, Happiness, Love, Sex, Work, Friends . . . and Hearing Aids
Katherine Bouton
Language: English
Pages: 266
ISBN: 0761187227
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
More than 48 million Americans suffer from hearing loss, and audiologists agree this is a national epidemic. LIVING BETTER WITH HEARING LOSS is a practical guide to daily life with hearing loss, covering topics from hearing tests and buying (and paying for) hearing aids, to deciding whether to get a cochlear implant, to navigating airports, job interviews, and first dates when you suffer from hearing loss. Useful and readable for the newly hearing-impaired, those who have been struggling for years, and their families. Author Katherine Bouton has also written Shouting Won't Help, a memoir of her adult-onset hearing loss
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magnet on your head. Women can still conceal it, if they have enough hair, but most people wear their implants proudly. Some even choose vibrant colors or psychedelic patterns. Hearing aids are already so small that requesting the smallest one you can get is only going to deny you features that will enhance the hearing experience, most notably the telecoil. The emphasis on invisibility is detrimental to the performance of hearing aids in another way. Hearing aids have come a long way, and the
is required before the surgery. Otosclerosis, a disease of the bones of the middle ear, is most prevalent in adults, particularly Caucasians. The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders reports that otosclerosis affects three million Americans, with white middle-aged women at highest risk. The condition is less common in people of Japanese and South American decent and is rare in African Americans. (Age-related hearing loss is also rarer in dark-skinned people, according
system, famous for its garbled announcements, now has information scrolling across screens in the stations and on the trains. Some stations even have fancy interactive touch screens for getting information. Remember that all the New York City subway booths are now looped. It turns out we don’t really need that—the information is there in writing. How about that information booth in the middle of Grand Central Terminal? Not quite the crossroads of the world (that’s a few blocks away at Times
but I can’t answer questions, and I worry the busy operator would hang up on me. Hearing loss itself is not an obstacle to communication. The failure in communication—in hearing—is a result instead of our personal and societal willful ignorance about hearing loss, our reluctance to acknowledge it and to treat it. The hearing aid profession’s obfuscation about pricing has to change, and the costs have to come down. The hearing health professionals’ internal squabbling about who has a right to
Drs. Darius Kohan and Anil Lalwani helped me with the chapter on cochlear implants. David Kirkwood and Holly Hosford-Dunn at Hearing Health & Technology Matters both read sections of the book and offered counsel on the hearing health industry. HHTM is one of my most reliable sources for news about developments in the hearing loss world. I also owe thanks to Neil Bauman for allowing me to quote him so freely, and to the hilarious and smart Gael Hannan, who generously allowed me to reprint