Becoming Hearing Empowered: A Guided Journal for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (Revised)
Becoming Hearing Empowered: A Guided Journal for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (Revised)
Becoming Hearing Empowered: A Guided Journal for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (Revised)
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REVISED EDITION.
Becoming Hearing Empowered offers an innovative way to address the challenges of hearing loss. Not only does it include the nuts and bolts of understanding your hearing loss, reading an audiogram, utilizing assistive technology, and personalizing accommodations, but it also offers the opportunity to consider the significant emotional impact straining to hear basic conversations can have on your well-being. Through guided journaling and creative activities, consider how negative experiences can derail your efforts to confidently move forward in social situations. Fight your internalized stigma, effectively and respectively refute accusations of "selective hearing," and confidently disclose your hearing loss and your accommodation needs in any situation.
Hearing loss is a complex disability, strife with negative stigma that might have prevented you from seeking help for years, cutting you off from the social interaction you crave. It's important to know the nuts and bolts, but that knowledge won't do you any good if you are embarrassed to talk about your hearing loss and struggle to admit that you need support.
In this book, I apply my experience as a person with lifelong hearing loss and as a Teacher for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing to guide you toward Becoming Hearing Empowered!
Critical Reviews
Critical Reviews
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Becoming Hearing Empowered is EXACTLY the wonderful resource I had been seeking following sudden single-sided deafness 3 years ago. It is like sitting with a caring friend who is helping you understand your hearing loss with your mind, body and spirit. Beautifully designed, the format welcomes you to explore in a kinesthetic and deeply personal way. I learned from books that others wrote about their hearing loss journey but Katherine's book invited me to consider and express MY journey.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Six stars.
This book isn't a book, it's a guided journal. The author guides us through some heavy introspection aimed at giving us tools to become hearing empowered. It helps us learn about the (broken) mechanics of our hearing loss, to come to terms with our hearing loss, find our people and places of support, find the words on how to advocate for ourselves, how to have the best possible appointment with an audiologist and choose the aids that are right for us, and so much more. It can be used more than once. Because our hearing will change over time, what we need will change over time. We can use this book to help guide us through the introspection time and again.
As someone who still struggles with how to live in the hearing world with hearing loss, can't recommend this book enough.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I don't go for journals, but the hard data & info is outstanding! A+
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Katherine's book was so helpful. I suddenly experienced significant hearing loss in one ear at the end of last year. I've did a lot of research on the Internet prior to reading this book. The book offers so much more information than a single website on pretty much any topic. What I appreciate the most is Katherine included the topics of self-advocacy and self-care. The journaling aspect of the book is also very helpful to step through. I highly recommend this book not just for people that are hard of hearing or deaf, but also for their hearing privileged love ones to gain a different perspective. My dad has hearing loss as well. I've always been mindful when speaking to him, but if I had this book 20 years ago, it would've changed the way I interacted with him. Thank you so much for publishing this book!
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