TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bouton,Katherine
TI  - Shouting won't help: why I--and 50 million other Americans--can't hear you 
T2  - Thorndike Press large print health, home & learning
SN  - 1410459934 (hardcover)
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Waterville, Maine
PB  - Thorndike Press
KW  - Bouton, Katherine,
KW  - Deaf women
KW  - New York (State)
KW  - New York
KW  - Biography
KW  - Deafness
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -