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A Quiet World: Living with Hearing Loss – Book Review

If you’re looking for a great book on hearing loss, you’ve found it.

Most people would probably find such a subject to be pretty mundane but the author of A Quiet World: Living with Hearing loss does a great job of writing in a way that’s not just entertaining but also provides a lot of great information.

Read the review from Publishers Weekly:

“Some 28 million Americans and 350 million people worldwide live with hearing loss,” psychologist Myers (The American Paradox: Spiritual Hunger in an Age of Plenty) explains in his compassionate and humorous new work; and he is one of them.

As he maintains, to be without hearing is to be socially isolated. And, even more important, since language is necessary for learning, without an equivalent for the spoken word, childhood development can lag behind.

In this 10-year journal of his experiences and observations, Myers charts the progression of his own hearing loss and compares it with that of his mother, who became profoundly deaf and, despite her family’s efforts, increasingly isolated in a silent world all her own.

As a loving observer, Myers’s wife shares her sadness and frustration with her husband’s growing problem and unwillingness, for many years, to do anything about it. In turn, he stresses that it is up to the affected individual to seek av (Read more…)

A Quiet World: Living with Hearing Loss

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3 Responses to “A Quiet World: Living with Hearing Loss – Book Review”

  1. 5.0 out of 5 stars
    If you have hearing loss, read this book.
    Anyone with hearing loss will identify with the content of David Myer’s book. Very inspirational!

  2. 4.0 out of 5 stars
    Valuable book
    This book is very nice and a valuable source. However, there are some things you ought to know before buying it.

  3. 5.0 out of 5 stars
    Very informative
    This book has so much to offer for the hearing-impaired and their families. I almost skipped over it because it is the author’s story of losing his hearing as an adult.

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