Living Better With Hearing Loss ─ A Guide to Health, Happiness, Love, Sex, Work, Friends... and Hearing Aids

More than 48 million Americans suffer from hearing loss, and audiologists agree this is a national epidemic. LIVING BETTER WITH HEARING LOSS is a practical guide to daily life with hearing loss, covering topics from hearing tests and buying (and paying for) hearing aids, to deciding whether to get a cochlear implant, to navigating airports, job interviews, and first dates when you suffer from hearing loss. Useful and readable for the newly hearing-impaired, those who have been struggling for years, and their families. Author Katherine Bouton has also written Shouting Won't Help, a memoir of her adult-onset hearing loss.

Katherine Bouton has had progressive bilateral hearing loss since 1978 (and who received a cochlear implant in 2009), is a former editor atThe New York Times, where she was deputy editor of the Sunday magazine for 10 years; she also held senior editing positions onScience Times, the Sunday Book Review, and Culture. These days, her writing (often inThe Times) focuses on hearing loss and other disability issues. She is a frequent speaker at academic conferences on hearing loss and to hearing loss groups. Her blog “What I Hear” appears on thePsychology Today website; a second more personal blog, “Hear Better with Hearing Loss,” appears on her home page.