Book Review - May/Jun 2000
'Words Apart: Losing your hearing as an adult' Lesley Jones, Jim Kyle & Peter Wood
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Words Apart: Losing your hearing as an adult
Author: Lesley Jones, Jim Kyle & Peter Wood
Year: 1987
Pages: 267
Cost: 14.99GBP hardback
Available from: The
Forest Bookshop
This book is particularly of interest to professionals working in the field of hearing loss. Although it may also be helpful for people with a hearing loss, it is probably more useful for those around them - to help them understand some of the ways in which hearing loss can affect the individual. This book is not light reading - it requires some effort to read it, but it very interesting.
The book looks at what it feels like to cope with losing your hearing - both from the point of the view of the person with the hearing loss, and those around them. It covers the impact of deafness on personal life, family life, social life and employment, from a psychological and physiological perspective.
The book is divided into 4 parts:
Part I - looks at the theories of hearing loss ... the changing concept of disability, and theories of adjustment to hearing loss
Part II - looks at the effects of hearing loss, and presents the results of a study of people with a hearing loss and those who live with them
Part III - considers the experience of hearing loss by examining several personal accounts of deafness.
Part IV - proposes a model for adjusting to hearing loss
Although this book was written 13 years ago, I have not seen a book which covers the same material as this one.