Living with Hearing Difficulties: The process of enablement

Living with Hearing Difficulties is a source-book for professionals who encounter and support individuals with hearing difficulties. It will also be of interest to people with hearing difficulties themselves and those close to them. The book highlights the concept of audiological enablement as being an interactive process requiring the active involvement of both clinician and patient. The thirteen chapters encompass four sections which broadly follow the categories of the World Health Organization's ICF (2001): <ul>
<li>Section 1 addresses types of hearing disorders, the impairments they cause and also the process of help seeking.</li> <li>Section 2 deals with the effects of hearing impairment on communication and psychosocial functioning.</li> <li>Section 3 considers the individual in their environment; their family, work, and leisure. Section 4 elaborates on the process of enablement in a non-prescriptive manner.</li> </ul>
The authors approach the problems and needs from the standpoint of what the patient/client is seeking. Enablement is seen as a team effort between the professionals, the patient and their family in an ever-changing environment. This entails using any relevant techniques to ensure the well-being of the individual with hearing impairment; that end remains very much their goal. The book also has a companion website www.wiley.com/go/stephens which hosts additional downloadable documents as well as a demonstration of the concept of the signal-to-noise ratio.

Stephens, Dafydd

Health, Fitness & Dieting

wiley

Living with Hearing Difficulties is a source-book for professionals who encounter and support individuals with hearing difficulties. It will also be of interest to people with hearing difficulties themselves and those close to them. The book highlights the concept of audiological enablement as being an interactive process requiring the active involvement of both clinician and patient.The thirteen chapters encompass four sections which broadly follow the categories of the World Health Organization's ICF (2001):Section 1 addresses types of hearing disorders, the impairments they cause and also the process of help seeking.Section 2 deals with the effects of hearing impairment on communication and psychosocial functioning.Section 3 considers the individual in their environment; their family, work, and leisure. Section 4 elaborates on the process of enablement in a non-prescriptive manner.The authors approach the problems and needs from the standpoint of what the patient/client is seeking. Enablement is seen as a team effort between the professionals, the patient and their family in an ever-changing environment. This entails using any relevant techniques to ensure the well-being of the individual with hearing impairment; that end remains very much their goal.The book also has a companion website www.wiley.com/go/stephens which hosts additional downloadable documents as well as a demonstration of the concept of the signal-to-noise ratio.

Medical Books

Allied Health Professions

This book comprises the first volume of a series which reports the outcomes of the European Union Concerted Action Programme on Genetic Hearing Impairment. The aim is to bring together clinical geneticists and audiologists, as well as basic scientists and other clinicians with a general interest in this field, to standardise the audiological and terminological approaches and publish state of the art interdisciplinary studies.

Developments in Genetic Hearing Impairment

Read, Andrew P.

Martini, Alessandro

This book addresses the impact of genetic deafness/hearingimpairment on people' s lives and those around them. It includesthe perspectives of those who are deaf or hard of hearing as wellas those working in the field. Professional topics include geneticcounselling, social science, psychology, social work and - withinmedicine - audiological and ENT medical and audiologicalpaediatrics. These practitioners are both hearing and hearingimpaired. The impact of deafness on children, those of working age andelderly people is discussed highlighting the specific effect ofgenetic factors. In particular there are chapters on deafblindnessand otosclerosis and NF2 (a potentially lethal condition). The Whodefinitions and ICF are used as a framework for considering theeffect on people' s lives of impairment and their participation insociety.This provides a bridge between the medical and social models ofdisability. Contributors write from both their professional andpersonal experience in order to try and address some of the issuesraised by the real impact of genetic deafness on everyday life andhow these can best be tackled by those working in the field.

Impact of Genetic Hearing Impairment

Science & Math

Jones,Lesley

Evolution

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Living with Hearing Difficulties: The process of enablement

Living with Hearing Difficulties: The process of enablement

Developments in Genetic Hearing Impairment

Impact of Genetic Hearing Impairment