Living with Hearing Difficulties: The process of enablement

Living with Hearing Difficulties: The process of enablement

Within this website we include key definitions, figures and tables covering aspects of the contents of the book. Far more detail and background information will be found within the book itself.

In addition we list a number of important websites. The interested reader can access these for information about self-help organizations as well as specific information about technical devices, such as hearing aids. The websites listed also include some which provide examples of simulated tinnitus sounds and of how speech may sound to people with various hearing impairments.

Finally, we include two video clips, one illustrating the concept of signal-to-noise ratio and one of the benefits of speechreading (lipreading) in the recognition of speech in poor listening conditions. The relevant background information to these is found in the associated parts of the book (chapters 8 and 12 respectively).

The book:

• Focuses on patient-centred care
• Will be valuable to patients as well as experts
• Promotes best practice based on the latest research findings
• Is presented in a clear, unambiguous way and should be easy to understand

Chapters:

• Introduction, definitions and models of the management of hearing problems
• Help-seeking
• Types of hearing impairment
• Influence of other factors
• Communication
• Psychosocial consequences of hearing impairment
• Role of family and significant others
• Work
• Recreation and leisure
• Patient-centred process.