Shouting Won't Help Why I--And 50 Million Other Americans--Can't Hear You

Name: Shouting Won't Help Why I--And 50 Million Other Americans--Can't Hear You
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ISBN: 9780374263041

ISBN-10: 0374263043

ISBN-13: 9780374263041

Edition: 2013

Authors: Katherine Bouton

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Why more Americans are going deaf than ever before—and what we can do about itFor twenty-two years, Katherine Bouton was a senior editor atThe New York Times. At daily editorial meetings, she had a secret that grew harder to keep every day—she couldn’t hear what her colleagues were saying. She had gone profoundly deaf in her left ear; her right was getting worse. As she writes, she was “the kind of person who might have used an ear trumpet in the nineteenth century.” Audiologists agree that we’re experiencing a national epidemic of hearing impairment. At present, 50 million Americans suffer some degree of hearing loss—17 percent of the population. And hearing loss is not exclusively a…

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List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 2/19/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Introduction



Losing It


Voices: Ben Luxon



Why?


Voices: Ross Wank



Bring in 'Da Noise!


Voices: Jacqui Metzger



You Cant 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 Cant We?


Voices: Eugene Kaplan


Epilogue: In the Land of the Near Deaf


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index