Hearing Impairment

A guide for people with Auditory Handicaps and those concerned with their care and Rehabilitatetion

Plot

Impaired Hearing is one of the most common and in many ways one of the most far-reaching of handicaps, and the term covers a wide spectrum of types and degrees of disability.

this new book describes all the categories of hearing impairment , how they are caused and how they are diagnosed and measured. The author examines in detail the psychological and social consequences of hearing disability and covers the rehabilitation of , and assistance for , hearing handicapped people, including statutory an d voluntary help available .

Hearing Impairment deals comprehensively but readable with the subject and explains all technicalities clearly and fully . it is a book for all those whose work in the health and social services brings them into contact with hearing impaired people , including health visitors, nurses, social workers, disablement resettlement officers, hearing aid dispensers and hearing and speech therapists. It will also be found valuable by the hearing impaired themselves, their families and friends.

Kenneth Lysons holds degrees from Universities of Liverpool, Manchester and Brunel. He has researched and lectured extensively on hearing impairment, and is the author of several other books on the subject .