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Author: Elaine Suss Publisher: Da Capo Press, Incorporated ISBN: Category : Hearing disorders Languages : en Pages : 320
Book Description
The National Institute on Deafness reports that a total of 28 million Americans are affected by hearing impairment. For these people, routine tasks may be full of unexpected difficulties - the "simple" act of communication can become a frustrating and humiliating experience. When the Hearing Gets Hard addresses this and other challenges with rare sensitivity and compassion. Elaine Suss, a hearing-impaired journalist, novelist, and poet, encourages people with impairment to cultivate a rewarding life by learning how to cope with telephones, doorbells, driving, shopping, and participation in other public activities. Strategies for interacting with family members, friends, children, co-workers, medical personnel, shopkeepers, and other service attendants are carefully presented to help people with hearing impairment avoid any awkwardness or embarrassment. In addition to providing insight from personal experiences, the author recounts the fascinating experiences of hearing-impaired actors, sports personalities, and business executives and the obstacles they overcame to succeed within the "hearing world". Through her own involvement with the hearing-impaired community, Suss eloquently articulates problems faced by people with hearing handicaps who have "dropped out" of the hearing community and hide behind psychological barriers fabricated by themselves and the hearing society. The author provides information on the newest assistive devices that significantly increase auditory comprehension, and offers hope and encouragement about the possibility of reversing hearing impairment with dietary management. One of the book's most important features is the section on the largely unknown dangers ofototoxic medications and substances that induce degrees of deafness. Extensive lists of ototoxic materials, compiled in collaboration with renowned ototoxicologists, otolaryngologists and pharmacologists, will be invaluable to the lay reader as well as the medical community. If these lists are studied carefully, healthy ears can be saved from harm and ears with impairment can be saved from further damage. When the Hearing Gets Hard is a triumphant work with enormous appeal for people with hearing impairment and their friends and families, as well as speech and hearing therapists, social workers, pharmacologists, physicians, clinicians in personality and social psychology, and public health personnel.
Author: Elaine Suss Publisher: Da Capo Press, Incorporated ISBN: Category : Hearing disorders Languages : en Pages : 320
Book Description
The National Institute on Deafness reports that a total of 28 million Americans are affected by hearing impairment. For these people, routine tasks may be full of unexpected difficulties - the "simple" act of communication can become a frustrating and humiliating experience. When the Hearing Gets Hard addresses this and other challenges with rare sensitivity and compassion. Elaine Suss, a hearing-impaired journalist, novelist, and poet, encourages people with impairment to cultivate a rewarding life by learning how to cope with telephones, doorbells, driving, shopping, and participation in other public activities. Strategies for interacting with family members, friends, children, co-workers, medical personnel, shopkeepers, and other service attendants are carefully presented to help people with hearing impairment avoid any awkwardness or embarrassment. In addition to providing insight from personal experiences, the author recounts the fascinating experiences of hearing-impaired actors, sports personalities, and business executives and the obstacles they overcame to succeed within the "hearing world". Through her own involvement with the hearing-impaired community, Suss eloquently articulates problems faced by people with hearing handicaps who have "dropped out" of the hearing community and hide behind psychological barriers fabricated by themselves and the hearing society. The author provides information on the newest assistive devices that significantly increase auditory comprehension, and offers hope and encouragement about the possibility of reversing hearing impairment with dietary management. One of the book's most important features is the section on the largely unknown dangers ofototoxic medications and substances that induce degrees of deafness. Extensive lists of ototoxic materials, compiled in collaboration with renowned ototoxicologists, otolaryngologists and pharmacologists, will be invaluable to the lay reader as well as the medical community. If these lists are studied carefully, healthy ears can be saved from harm and ears with impairment can be saved from further damage. When the Hearing Gets Hard is a triumphant work with enormous appeal for people with hearing impairment and their friends and families, as well as speech and hearing therapists, social workers, pharmacologists, physicians, clinicians in personality and social psychology, and public health personnel.
Author: National Research Council Publisher: National Academies Press ISBN: 0309092965 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 321
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Millions of Americans experience some degree of hearing loss. The Social Security Administration (SSA) operates programs that provide cash disability benefits to people with permanent impairments like hearing loss, if they can show that their impairments meet stringent SSA criteria and their earnings are below an SSA threshold. The National Research Council convened an expert committee at the request of the SSA to study the issues related to disability determination for people with hearing loss. This volume is the product of that study. Hearing Loss: Determining Eligibility for Social Security Benefits reviews current knowledge about hearing loss and its measurement and treatment, and provides an evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses of the current processes and criteria. It recommends changes to strengthen the disability determination process and ensure its reliability and fairness. The book addresses criteria for selection of pure tone and speech tests, guidelines for test administration, testing of hearing in noise, special issues related to testing children, and the difficulty of predicting work capacity from clinical hearing test results. It should be useful to audiologists, otolaryngologists, disability advocates, and others who are concerned with people who have hearing loss.
Author: Department of Health and Human Services Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781496001597 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 122
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In the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, Congress declared that its purpose was to assure, so far as possible, safe and healthful working conditions for every working man and woman and to preserve our human resources. In this Act, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is charged with recommending occupational safety and health standards and describing exposure concentrations that are safe for various periods of employment-including but not limited to concentrations at which no worker will suffer diminished health, functional capacity, or life expectancy as a result of his or her work experience. By means of criteria documents, NIOSH communicates these recommended standards to regulatory agencies (including the Occupational Safety and Health Administration [OSHA]) and to others in the occupational safety and health community. Criteria documents provide the scientific basis for new occupational safety and health standards. These documents generally contain a critical review of the scientific and technical information available on the prevalence of hazards, the existence of safety and health risks, and the adequacy of control methods. In addition to transmitting these documents to the Department of Labor, NIOSH also distributes them to health professionals in academic institutions, industry, organized labor, public interest groups, and other government agencies. In 1972, NIOSH published Criteria for a Recommended Standard: Occupational Exposure to Noise, which provided the basis for a recommended standard to reduce the risk of developing permanent hearing loss as a result of occupational noise exposure [NIOSH 1972]. NIOSH has now evaluated the latest scientific information and has revised some of its previous recommendations. The 1998 recommendations go beyond attempting to conserve hearing by focusing on preventing occupational noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL). This criteria document reevaluates and reaffirms the recommended exposure limit (REL) for occupational noise exposure established by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) in 1972. The REL is 85 decibels, A-weighted, as an 8-hr time-weighted average (85 dBA as an 8-hr TWA). Exposures at or above this level are hazardous. By incorporating the 4000-Hz audiometric frequency into the definition of hearing impairment in the risk assessment, NIOSH has found an 8% excess risk of developing occupational noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) during a 40-year lifetime exposure at the 85-dBA REL. NIOSH has also found that scientific evidence supports the use of a 3-dB exchange rate for the calculation of TWA exposures to noise. The recommendations in this document go beyond attempts to conserve hearing by focusing on prevention of occupational NIHL. For workers whose noise exposures equal or exceed 85 dBA, NIOSH recommends a hearing loss prevention program (HLPP) that includes exposure assessment, engineering and administrative controls, proper use of hearing protectors, audiometric evaluation, education and motivation, recordkeeping, and program audits and evaluations. Audiometric evaluation is an important component of an HLPP. To provide early identification of workers with increasing hearing loss, NIOSH has revised the criterion for significant threshold shift to an increase of 15 dB in the hearing threshold level (HTL) at 500, 1000, 2000, 3000, 4000, or 6000 Hz in either ear, as determined by two consecutive tests. To permit timely intervention and prevent further hearing losses in workers whose HTLs have increased because of occupational noise exposure, NIOSH no longer recommends age correction on individual audiograms.
Author: Richard Carmen Publisher: ISBN: 9780966182637 Category : Deaf Languages : en Pages : 0
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This is the first book written exclusively for families that explains how to manage the frustrations of a highly resistant loved one who won't seek treatment for hearing loss. It peels exposes what is behind the resistance. Vanity, stigma and denial are addressed and steps are provided on how to conquer the emotional and psychological consequences that often bring crisis to the entire family. Besides fascinating insights into the psychological mechanisms behind resistance, clarified is the essential role family members play in shifting their loved one from "struggling to hear" to "hearing independence." This book will inspire profound changes and a higher quality of life for everyone.
Author: Justin Osmond Publisher: ISBN: 9780983050308 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 196
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Justin Osmond, the son of Merrill Osmond, of the Osmonds, grew up with a severe/profound sensorial-neutral hearing loss and all the challenges that come with that. Here he tells his life story--how with the help of those who loved him, he overcame many communication barriers, became a musician, motivational speaker, spokesperson for the Starkey Hearing Foundation, and inspiration to everyone he comes in touch with.
Author: Susan R. Easterbrooks Publisher: Corwin Press ISBN: 1452296901 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 225
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Based on the authors' model of auditory, speech, and language development, the book provides educators with effective techniques and strategies for working with children in the primary grades.
Author: Michael A. Harvey Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1135629323 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 255
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In this expanded and thoroughly updated second edition, Michael A. Harvey elaborates his pioneering biopsychosocial model of the effective assessment and treatment of deaf and hard-of-hearing clients in individual and family therapy. Taking a broad ecological perspective, he examines the influences of larger networks on the individual and vice versa, and illuminates the overt and covert conflicts among family members, school and vocational rehabilitation personnel, and friends that often exacerbate problems. The spiritual issues relevant to those who have experienced any kind of loss receive special attention in the new edition, as do the daily hurtful exchanges in the lives of the deaf he sums up as "ordinary evil." Throughout the reader-friendly text, theoretical description is balanced with practical advice; points are vividly illustrated with extended verbatim transcripts from actual therapy sessions and with exchanges in the author's question-and-answer column in the journal, Hearing Loss: Self-Help for the Hard of Hearing. Psychotherapy With Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Persons, Second Edition, is essential reading for all mental health professionals who see even occasional clients whose lives have been affected by hearing loss in themselves or in family members.
Author: Elaine Suss
Author: Elaine Suss
Author: National Research Council
Author: Department of Health and Human Services
Author: Richard Carmen
Author: Daria J. Medwid
Author: Clara G. Schiffer
Author: Justin Osmond
Author: Susan R. Easterbrooks
Author: Michael A. Harvey
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