Ebook: Living better with hearing loss: a guide to health, happiness, love, sex, work, friends and hearing aids

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Part One: Facing Facts; Chapter 1. I Don't Have Hearing Loss. I Just Can't Hear You.; Chapter 2. Get It Tested; Chapter 3. Your First Audiologist Appointment; Chapter 4. Hearing Aids: So Many Choices; Chapter 5. The Not-Ready-for-a-Hearing-Aid "Hearing Aid"; Chapter 6. How Did This Happen?; Chapter 7. Practice, Practice, Practice; Part Two: Love and Work; Chapter 8. Family Matters; Chapter 9. Dating: Who, How, and When to Tell; Chapter 10. You Gotta Have Friends; Chapter 11. The Job Search; Chapter 12. Once You Get the Job.;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.