The Door Beacon for the Hard of Hearing or Deaf
Vibration activated, this unit responds to knocks by flashing an extra bright light that lasts for several seconds. Easy to install. Lightweight & portable. Uses 9V battery (not included).
Not Deaf Enough Raising a Child Who Is Hard of Hearing With Hugs and Humor
5 Stars This is a MUST READ for parents of hard of hearing children
This no-nonsense book is filled with practical, useful information. I highly recommend this book to all parents of hard of hearing children.
As the parent of two hard of hearing children, I have read my share of books about deafness. This is one of the best.
Amazon says the book is out of print, but I checked with the publisher …and they say they have just reprinted it and it should be available soon.
5 Stars Practical, Focused Help for Children with Hearing Problems
“Not Deaf Enough” (the title is devastating in itself,can be read on at least two levels. The first is obvious. The author, mother of a child with hearing deficiencies, gives the reader an account and the benefit of her and her famly’s experiences with the system proved deficient. The advice is practical and focussed and comes from an intelligent, tenacious, loving, resourceful and articulate woman. Candlish pulls no punches and does not pussyfoot around the problem. If you are fortunate enough not to have had a major challnege of this sort in your family, then read the book from the perspective of someone who felt that the outside world should get a return on her and her family’s investment. With any luck, this book will inspire others to give help and support to others less fortunate. There should be more books written such as this written so clearly. A third level, of course, is that the book is also a character sketch of someone who is playing the hand that she has been dealt without whining and without asking for a new deal.
5 Stars A great reference and learning tool about hearing problems.
I have just finished reading this book. I have read it cover to cover twice and I will return to it from time to time when I’m working with hearing impaired clients. I have placed it on the shelf with my nursing journals and texts for future reference. I strongly recommend that Health care and education professionals read this book as it is a great reference and learning tool for anyone who works with hearing impaired clients. I would like to see it be required reading for nurses and teachers before graduation. Patricia Ann Morgan Candlish is not only the author of this book but has lived with a child who is “not deaf enough”. She tells her story of how it is and was to raise a hard of hearing child. She discusses her personal diffculties in obtaining a diagnosis and her future roadblocks in achieving satisfactory therapy in rural Ontario post diagnosis. This book describes numerous personal experiences from a parents’ point of view and would be a wonderful asset to any home or school library. The author portrays in detail, and with humour,I might add the challenges of day to day living with a hard of hearing child. The book is well laid out; each chapter is full of material starting with the stages of grief, incliding denial and anger at being blessed with a “not so perfect baby.” As the book progresses she describes the formal and informal testing, the anatomy of the ear, hearing aids, financial stresses and sign languages versus speech reading. She describes the symptoms of hearing loss and indicators for hearing testing from the US National Institute of Health. It goes on to depict the management of temper tantrums, difficulty with education, schools, and basically how to deal with health care and educational professionals. Updated information is also available on teaching aids such as toys, books phones and computers. I would recommend this reading material not only for those working with a child who is hearing impaired, but for those working with the hard of hearing of any age. The information in this book is invaluable to all professionals of heal care and education.
5 Stars PAM’s Sister who is a Teacher Reviews Not Deaf Enough
A very worthwhile book. I had a chance to reread your book this summer and I found myself learning even more the second time around.(Actually the third time if you count the manuscript.) I always knew your life was not easy but I didn’t know just how difficult it has been. You have not only coped beautifully but managed to produce a very worthwhile work out of all your difficulties that will benefit others. Congratulations. I’m lucky to be your older sister. Your book is so easy to read, even the technical parts. I think it should be required reading for everyone in the education field. I loved the way you interspersed it with pictures. I have always been amazed at how you taught Reid to talk. You done great SIS!
Missed Connections Hard of Hearing in a Hearing World
“Why doesn’t she just open up her ears and listen?” Few physical problems are as poorly understood as hearing loss. In “Missed Connections”, a new kind of self-help book that combines sociological reporting with personal reflection, sociologist Barbara Stenross examines what hearing loss feels like to those who have it and which technologies and strategies can improve communication at home and in public. Based on seven years of research, Stenross’ book tells of how as she sought information and solutions to help her hard-of-hearing father she came to join a community group called Village Self Help for Hard-of-Hearing People.Taking us along to group meetings and into the homes of members, Stenross shows us through the personal accounts of these individuals the exhaustion that comes from constantly straining to listen, the frustration of missing critical comments or the punchlines of jokes, and the pain that hard-of-hearing family members experience when loved ones accuse them of hearing “when they want to.” Full of scenes, dialogues, and conversations, “Missed Connections” also discusses such practical issues as how people with impaired hearing can continue to use the phone, how assistive technologies can help in public and private, why hearing aids can’t always do enough, and how bluffing and silence can hurt more than help.Understanding that when one family member is hard-of-hearing, the whole family can suffer from “missed connections,” Stenross offers in this book a useful family resource with a broad range of practical guidance. With chapters on belonging and acceptance, do’s and don’ts in public, lip-reading, hearing aids, and television, “Missed Connections” will interest a range of readers including deaf and hard-of-hearing people as well as their families, teachers, friends, employers, and counselors healthcare professionals, scholars, and others interested in the experiences of and solutions for disability and hearing loss. Author note: Barbara Stenross teaches sociology and serves as Assistant Dean of the General College at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
5 Stars Very Helpful Book
I think this is one of the best books on the market for understanding people that are hard-of-hearing. I is easily read, and very complete. I think everyone who works along side a HOH person should read it. It explains what we hear and what we don’t. I really liked the two charts that were included. It helped me to show my boss and co-workers just where my hearing level is and what sounds I don’t hear. Anyone that lives or works with someone that is either hard-of-hearing or deaf should read this book. I would sure help us if others understood what they could do to make comucation easier for us.
5 Stars Good Basic Book
My Dad is hard of hearing so I was looking for a book that would inform me about it. This book has information about how to talk to a deaf person (slowly, facing them, light on face) as well as all the technology options available at the time.
5 Stars Fine Probe Into Hearing Loss and Deaf World
Having grown up in a deaf home, this sociology professor takes on this cultural area for her research, and finds much that she passes on in this well written book.
Especially productive in reading this is the insights given about the differences in hearing aids, with their telecoils and zoom features and the audio coil systems, etc. There is plethora of fine discussion of other technologies that assist the hearing impaired and their families and social contacts.
Since communication is critical to us humans, missed connections is a terrible thing to live with, and this fine work provides many helpful discussions and suggestions on overcoming or minimalizing them.
There are absolutely some awesome things to be grasped from this book: Helen Keller said that rather be blind than deaf; the almost impossibility of proficient lipreading or speechreading; the pingpong paddles signal system to either speak up, or that’s good.
This is great resource to be turned to and recommended.
2 Stars Not First Choice
Although this book shares some good information and common sense, if you yourself are dealing with a hearing loss (as the book suggests), you will not find an unbiased opinion here. Stressing oralism (lipreading and listening with assistive listening devices), there is no talk of sign language whatsoever herein. If you’re losing your hearing, but vow to never admit you’re deaf (when the loss becomes that severe) and vow that you will stay in the “hearing world” at all costs, this is the book for you to read as you live in denial. However, if you are truly open to learning about every option offered you as a hard of hearing or deaf person, don’t waste your time. That’s just this deafie’s opinion. :o)