Shouting Won't Help: Why I--And 50 Million Other Americans--Can't Hear You (Hardcover) by Katherine Bouton

from pbjwelch

To quote the New Yorker summary: "Bouton's personal narrative, which offers essential insight into the subtle but crippling ways that this 'hidden disability, one often borne in secret', can upend relationships and threaten professional goals".As the daughter of a mother with age-onset hearing is...

from olevia

I lived this experience (the losing of much of the hearing in one ear, along with the tinnitus & a touch of vertigo) for a short time a few years back for apparently no better cause than "shifting of the cerebral arteries" - yes, that's apparently a thing. Mega-steroids provided the fix, but I'm ...

from SESchend

If you've ever wondered what it's like inside the head of someone who can't hear well or is deaf, this is a book I highly recommend reading. While its focus on adults losing their hearing as adults, there's a lot of data (anecdotal and scientific) to provide insight for those of us with lifelon...