Shouting won't help : why I--and 50 million other Americans--can't hear you /

Bouton, Katherine, 1947-

Shouting won't help : why I--and 50 million other Americans--can't hear you / by Katherine Bouton. - Large print edition. - 491 pages ; 23 cm. - Thorndike Press large print health, home & learning . - Thorndike Press large print health, home & learning. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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.

1410459934 (hardcover) 9781410459930 (hardcover)

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Bouton, Katherine, 1947-


Deaf women--New York (State)--New York--Biography.
Deafness.

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