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A travesty
This book and all others of this ilk espouse the philosophy that those who are deaf just have to learn to live with it. I say this is wrong. Science can put an end to this condition but these scientists and researchers choose not to do so. It is more profitable to keep bilking the deaf out of what little money they can scrape together from their menial jobs for hearing aids that don't really help and for visits to doctors who look in a person's ears and "sorrowfully" announce that nothing can be done to restore hearing. Money is wasted by organizations to pay for close captions that are garbled most of the time, especially on news programs. Taxes are wasted on schools for the deaf where the deaf are taught that they are losers and have no right to expect any of the good things in life that hearing people take for granted. Interpreters charge a fortune for their services. Books like this offer no comfort or peace of mind. They are just part of schemes to make more dishonest money. Reading a book like this is going to make hearing people stop making fun of the deaf? I don't think so. Easy for a hearing person to write a book like this and say, "just live with it." If the author is deaf, then he has had his head buried in the sand. Save your money, everyone. Don't waste your time and money on books like this. If you want fairy tales, read Mother Goose or Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien. ... Read more

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The Ohio State University, Columbus.Reference for the professional speech-language pathologist who needs to know more about hearing and audiology. ... Read more

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Practical, concise and time-saving, Hearing Disorders Handbook provides comprehensive, reliable, and accurate descriptions of auditory and vestibular disorders, their frequency of occurrence, etiology, diagnosis and management - all in a single resource. Topics are presented in concise and consistently organized form, sifting the essential from the unessential, and include references to original print and electronic sources. Gaps in the knowledge of hearing and vestibular disorders are clearly denoted and directions to sources of information that supplement the material available about each disorder are given. ... Read more

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For those clinicians and graduate or doctoral students interested in diagnostic audiology and auditory disorders, as well as graduate courses in Speech-Language Pathology and Deaf Education, Auditory Neuropathy is the first book of its kind to present all aspects of this newly identified disorder that affects many clients.Drs. Sininger and Starr along with the top clinicians and researchers in the field explore auditory neuropathy (AN) beginning with its history, pathophysiology, audiologic and neurologic findings in patients with AN, and results on psychoacoustic and speech perception tasks.The potential mechanisms for AN are discussed in detail as well as the latest information on the genetic basis for some AN including identification of specific chromosomal disorders.Finally, the text will give information on results of a variety of rehabilitative methods and strategies including amplification and cochlear implantation for treatment of this disorder.TEXTBOOK ... Read more