The hearing loss handbook

Plot

Those who are hard of hearing have more than a physical handicap to contend with. The outside world regards them with skepticism or patronizes them; doctors and audiologists discourage their attempts at self-help; hearing-aid salesman takes advantage of their ignorance. in The Hearing Loss Handbook . Richard Rosenthal, a writer who himself has been a hard of hearing for nearly three decades, distills thirty years experience and three years of research into an essential guide for the hearing impaired and those who care for them.

The book has three main purposes:
- To help the hard of hearing realize that the can get more out of life then they think
- To alert them to policies of deafness professionals geared to converting healthy people with poor hearing into handicapped individuals with curtailed potential
To enable the hearing-impaired to develop the art of being successful consumers of rehabilitation services.

THE HEARING LOSS HANDBOOK covers every area if its subject; from physical ( the anatomy of hearing and hearing loss) to the professional (getting the most out of the medical and rehabilitative procedures) to the practical ( how to get an inexpensive custom-made hearing aid).