Bibliograph

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

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Shouting won't help

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

795756438

Responsibility statement

Katherine Bouton

Sub title

why I--and 50 million other Americans--can't hear you

Summary

For twenty-two years, Katherine Bouton had a secret that grew harder to keep every day: she had gone profoundly deaf in her left ear; her right was getting worse. Audiologists agree that we're experiencing a national epidemic of hearing impairment. At present, 50 million Americans suffer some degree of hearing loss. Using her own experience as a guide, Bouton examines the problem personally, psychologically, and physiologically, illuminating the startling effects of this invisible disability

Table Of Contents

Losing it -- Voices : Ben Luxon -- Why? -- Voices : Ross Wank -- Bring in 'da noise! -- Voices : Jacqui Metzger -- You can't see it, but I can't hear you -- Voices : Toni Iacolucci -- Am I deaf or just dumb? -- Voices : Jay Alan Zimmerman -- "They don't scream, 'I'm wearing hearing aids!!!'" -- Voices : Richard Einhorn -- And then you have to pay for it -- Voices : Robert Astle -- Cyborg : cochlear implants -- Voices : Lorie Singer -- Wig tape, and that pig outdoors -- Voices : Karin Olsoe -- How to be a deaf theater editor, and other challenges of real life -- Voices : Isaiah Jackson -- The ugly stepsisters : tinnitus and vertigo -- Voices : Melissa -- Chicks and fish do it. Why can't we? -- Voices : Eugene Kaplan -- In the land of the near deaf

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