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Smart Hearing: Strategies, Skills, and Resources for Living Better with Hearing Loss
Smart Hearing is an honest, sometimes exasperated, fact-filled guide for living better with hearing loss. Whether you're new to hearing loss or a longtime veteran, this book has something for you.
It begins with the how to find an audiologist, how to buy a hearing aid and how to pay for it. Subsequent chapters include a detailed guide to the world of assistive listening technology, CART captioning, hearing loops, smartphone apps, telecoils and more.
Smart Hearing surveys the many new and less expensive alternatives to hearing aids, including over-the-counter hearing aids and sophisticated personal listening devices. It also addresses everyday experiences that are often frustrating for those with hearing dinner parties, travel, work, restaurants. It offers up-to-date information on cochlear implants, tinnitus and vertigo. And it assesses the sometimes significant health risks of not treating hearing loss.
Katherine Bouton learned to navigate the maze of hearing loss on her own after suddenly losing her hearing at age 30. In this book, she hopes to make that journey easier for others.
She is the author of Shouting Won't Help , a Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2013.
It begins with the how to find an audiologist, how to buy a hearing aid and how to pay for it. Subsequent chapters include a detailed guide to the world of assistive listening technology, CART captioning, hearing loops, smartphone apps, telecoils and more.
Smart Hearing surveys the many new and less expensive alternatives to hearing aids, including over-the-counter hearing aids and sophisticated personal listening devices. It also addresses everyday experiences that are often frustrating for those with hearing dinner parties, travel, work, restaurants. It offers up-to-date information on cochlear implants, tinnitus and vertigo. And it assesses the sometimes significant health risks of not treating hearing loss.
Katherine Bouton learned to navigate the maze of hearing loss on her own after suddenly losing her hearing at age 30. In this book, she hopes to make that journey easier for others.
She is the author of Shouting Won't Help , a Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2013.
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267 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 23, 2018
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About the author
Katherine Bouton
6 books11 followersKatherine Bouton was an editor at The New York Times for 22 years before her progressive hearing loss made it too difficult to continue to work in a newsroom.
Confronted with involuntary early retirement, she returned to her first love and earlier career, writing. The result was her book "Shouting Won't Help: Why I -- and 50 Million Other Americans -- Can't Hear You," published to critical acclaim and a great deal of media interest in February 2013.
Hearing loss is a hidden disability and one that people are reluctant to acknowledge. Her book prompted many to open up about their own hearing loss.
She is a frequent speaker at hearing loss organizations, talking about the arc of her own hearing loss experience: from despair and anger to acceptance. The journey was not an easy one, but her eventual success allowed her to begin a whole new phase of life as a writer as well as an advocate for those with hearing loss and other hidden disabilities.
She has also been invited to talk to university neurobiology departments about her first person experience of learning to hear again with a cochlear implant. She speaks from a consumer perspective about the hearing loss industry and her experiences with hearing aids and cochlear implants. She has been invited to several international conferences on hearing loss, which is a global problem costing billions of dollars in unemployment and health care costs.
Katherine's early writing appeared in The New Yorker (where she was a staff member), in The New York Times Magazine (where she was later deputy editor for 10 years), the New York Times Book review, and many other publications.
She is a graduate of Vassar College and has taught in various writing and journalism programs.
She is married to the writer Daniel Menaker and they have two grown children: William Menaker, an assistant editor at Liverwright Publishers, and Elizabeth Menaker, a clinical social worker.
She is at work on a practical guide to living with hearing loss, to be published by Workman in the summer of 2015.
She continues to contribute reviews and essays to The New York Times.
Confronted with involuntary early retirement, she returned to her first love and earlier career, writing. The result was her book "Shouting Won't Help: Why I -- and 50 Million Other Americans -- Can't Hear You," published to critical acclaim and a great deal of media interest in February 2013.
Hearing loss is a hidden disability and one that people are reluctant to acknowledge. Her book prompted many to open up about their own hearing loss.
She is a frequent speaker at hearing loss organizations, talking about the arc of her own hearing loss experience: from despair and anger to acceptance. The journey was not an easy one, but her eventual success allowed her to begin a whole new phase of life as a writer as well as an advocate for those with hearing loss and other hidden disabilities.
She has also been invited to talk to university neurobiology departments about her first person experience of learning to hear again with a cochlear implant. She speaks from a consumer perspective about the hearing loss industry and her experiences with hearing aids and cochlear implants. She has been invited to several international conferences on hearing loss, which is a global problem costing billions of dollars in unemployment and health care costs.
Katherine's early writing appeared in The New Yorker (where she was a staff member), in The New York Times Magazine (where she was later deputy editor for 10 years), the New York Times Book review, and many other publications.
She is a graduate of Vassar College and has taught in various writing and journalism programs.
She is married to the writer Daniel Menaker and they have two grown children: William Menaker, an assistant editor at Liverwright Publishers, and Elizabeth Menaker, a clinical social worker.
She is at work on a practical guide to living with hearing loss, to be published by Workman in the summer of 2015.
She continues to contribute reviews and essays to The New York Times.
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February 11, 2019
A great deal of useful and practical information, presented in an often light-hearted way that had me chuckling. However, I was somewhat irked to find that many parts read a great deal like the author's earlier two books, and covered many of the same topics. But two useful aspects of her 2015 book, "Living better with hearing loss", ie a glossary of terms and an endnotes section, do not appear in this book.
November 12, 2023
2.5 stars rounded up. With this book being published in 2018 I had to wonder how some of the data has changed over the years. I also didn't read anything new that I haven't read in researching loss of hearing online. I was hoping for more practical tips and tricks for dealing with hearing loss in everyday situations.
December 31, 2019
Didn't contain much that I didn't already know. My own hearing issues are more specific than the ones listed in the book, and I'm fortunate that way in that my issues are somewhat repairable. But for anyone who is new to hearing loss I think this would be a good book.
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