Hearing loss doesn't come with an operating manual--until 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 figure out how to actually live with it, you've
likely been getting by on information pieced together from various
sources--and yet, communication often seems incomplete and unsatisfying.
What's missing from this hearing care model is the big picture--a
real-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. You'll gain 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 & Beyond offers a
new way forward to greater connection and engagement--whether you're new
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 doesn't have to have you.
