Download Hear & Beyond: Live Skillfully with Hearing Loss

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Hear Beyond
Live
Skillfully
with
Hearing
Loss
Description
Gold Medal winner of the IBPA Benjamin Franklin
Award in
the
Health ampFitness categoryHearing loss
doesn8217tcome with an operating
manual8213unil now. If you have hearing loss,
you already know that the conventional approach
to treatment is focused on hearing-aid
technology. Without a handbook to help you
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figure out how to actually live with it,
you8217velikely been getting by on information
pieced together from various sources8213an yet,
communication often seems incomplete and
unsatisfying.What8217smissing from this hearing
care model is the big picture8213areal-life
illustration of how hearing loss, its emotions,
and its barriers affect every corner of your
life. Now, hearing-health advocates, consultants,
and speakers Shari Eberts and Gael Hannan offer a
new skills-based approach to hearing loss that is
centered not on hearing better, but on
communicating better.With honesty and humor, they
share their own hearing loss journeys, and
outline invaluable insights, strategies, and
workarounds to help you engage with the world and
be heard. You8217llgain tips for navigating all
areas impacted by hearing loss, including
relationships, work, technology strategies
for adopting a new, empowering mindset towards
your hearing loss and communication behaviors
that can make almost any listening situation
manageable.Informed by the lived experiences of
thousands of people living with hearing loss, and
corroborated by hearing science, technological
advances, and modern hearing-care principles,
Hear ampBeyond offers a new way forward to
greater connection and engagement8213whther
you8217renew to hearing loss or have been
living with it for a long time.Hearing loss is
just one aspect of who you are, among many
others. You may have hearing loss, but it
doesn8217thave to have you.