Coping with Hearing Loss

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Summary: Just what the doctor ordered
Review: An excellent book. Rezen has a way of getting straight to the point, while remaining very sympathetic to both the person with the hearing loss, and those who communicate/live with that person. It is a very helpful, clear, well-written book that I cannot recommend highly enough to you.

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Summary: Understanding a disability
Review: Hearing loss is a problem wherein the body cannot hear as well because it is DAMAGED! You can't fix the damage done to the cochlea where the damage has occurred -- instead, people need to come to terms and learn to do the best with what hearing they have left. This book is one of several that are great at helping people understand. Hearing Aids -- sold from a good competent audiologist -- is the key to understanding and making adjustments to maximize use of what hearing is left.

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Summary: Misguided Philosophy
Review: Nobody should have to cope with deafness. Nobody should have to adjust. One reads of all the advances made in science and technology, particularly in fields of medicine and what advances have they made in deaf research in the last forty years? Nothing. So, instead of doing anything about it, so-called doctors just spend their time ripping off deaf people of their hard earned money while hearing aid manufacturers and retailers make a fortune selling junk that, while of some benefit to people who are hard-of-hearing, provide absolutely no help to the severely or profoundly deaf and closed caption companies charge [per] hour to caption programs on TV that are garbled half the time. And the author says "cope with it." A bad book that offers no hope for a better future. Save what little money you have left after blowing it on useless hearing gadgets, visits to the quacks, and garbled captions paid for by the federal government from your taxes.

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Summary: helpful to me! Confirms what I know.
Review: One of the prior reviewers of this book was very negative. I disagree! As a hearing aid user for more than 40 years, I think this book is a good summary of the information that I need and have bought copies of it to educate my family and friends. I suspect the unhappy user was never correctly fitted with an adequate hearing aid and feels used and abused. I would have also been in that frame of mind if I had purchased my aids from the wrong audiologist. This book will help educate potential hearing aid users (and their families) to realistic expectations and hopefully lead them to good audiologists.

Rating:
Summary: helpful to me! Confirms what I know.
Review: One of the prior reviewers of this book was very negative. I disagree! As a hearing aid user for more than 40 years, I think this book is a good summary of the information that I need and have bought copies of it to educate my family and friends. I suspect the unhappy user was never correctly fitted with an adequate hearing aid and feels used and abused. I would have also been in that frame of mind if I had purchased my aids from the wrong audiologist. This book will help educate potential hearing aid users (and their families) to realistic expectations and hopefully lead them to good audiologists.