Missed Connections: Hard of Hearing in a Hearing World

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Summary: Fine Probe Into Hearing Loss and Deaf World
Review: Having grown up in a deaf home, this sociology professor takes on this cultural area for her research, and finds much that she passes on in this well written book.

Especially productive in reading this is the insights given about the differences in hearing aids, with their telecoils and zoom features and the audio coil systems, etc. There is plethora of fine discussion of other technologies that assist the hearing impaired and their families and social contacts.

Since communication is critical to us humans, missed connections is a terrible thing to live with, and this fine work provides many helpful discussions and suggestions on overcoming or minimalizing them.

There are absolutely some awesome things to be grasped from this book: Helen Keller said that rather be blind than deaf; the almost impossibility of proficient lipreading or speechreading; the pingpong paddles signal system to either speak up, or that's good.

This is great resource to be turned to and recommended.

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Summary: Very Helpful Book
Review: I think this is one of the best books on the market for understanding people that are hard-of-hearing. I is easily read, and very complete. I think everyone who works along side a HOH person should read it. It explains what we hear and what we don't. I really liked the two charts that were included. It helped me to show my boss and co-workers just where my hearing level is and what sounds I don't hear. Anyone that lives or works with someone that is either hard-of-hearing or deaf should read this book. I would sure help us if others understood what they could do to make comucation easier for us.