Book Review - Jan/Feb 2000
'Hear What You've Been Missing: how to cope with hearing loss' Donna S. Wagner
Previous reviews:
May/Jun 2000
Mar/Apr 2000
Jan/Feb 2000
"Hear What You've Been Missing: how to cope with hearing loss"
Author: Donna S Wagner
Year: 1998
Pages: 167
Cover: Paperback
Cost: approx 8GBP from Amazon / 14.95USD / 20.95 CD
Available from: Buy
this book now at Amazon.co.uk
The author of this book is an audiologist, and director of The Hearing Centre in Albany, New York, USA.
The book is written in an easy-to-follow, question and answer format, which allows the reader to quickly find the answer to any questions that they have. It is written in easy-to-read language, and the explanations of complex subjects such as how the ear works, and the different types of hearing loss are very easy to understand, even for the lay person. It addresses most of the areas that people with an acquired hearing loss have questions about, and covers each area very comprehensively.
These include:
The book is an excellent resource of information for people who have just discovered that they have a hearing loss - or even those that have known for sometime. It informs, and at the same time reassures those with a hearing loss. There are numerous diagrams, and a very good list of 12 communication strategies.
The appendices contain information that it mostly specific to the USA, but appendix 1 is a very useful glossary of medical terms related to hearing loss, and appendix 7 is a simple five-minute hearing-test.
Errata: there is an error in the table of speech sounds on page
102 - probably caused by an error with the typesetting - please compare
the table with the table of speech sounds listed in the lipreading section
of this website.