Books

Baby Boomers and Hearing Loss
In Baby Boomers and Hearing Loss, audiologist John M. Burkey shows readers how they can continue to enjoy youthful living, regardless of whether their hearing abilities are undiminished or severely compromised.
John M. Burkey, Author
Published by Rutg...

“Do You Hear Me?”
A collection of humor not only for the hard of hearing, but for those who don't think they are... and for their friends and families who know they are.
Maxwell Schneider, Author
Published by Thinking Publications, Eau Claire, WI

Mother Father Deaf: Living Between Sound and Silence
"Mother father deaf" is the phrase commonly used within the Deaf community to refer to hearing children of deaf parents. These children grow up between two cultures, the Hearing and the Deaf, forever balancing the worlds of sound and silence. Paul Preston, one of the...

Stick It In Your Ear
This book is written for those who have or live with someone who has a hearing problem. It is written in simple, easy to understand terms. There are ample reasons why people don't get hearing help. What they don't know is how poor hearing negatively impacts their l...

Talking With Hard of Hearing People 3rd Edition
Communicating is important to all of us. When communication breaks down, we all suffer. For hard of hearing people, this happens all the time. This book is for you - whether you are hearing or hard of hearing! It explains how to communicate with hard of hearing p...

Silent Observer
Children's book. A memoir told as it was seen through the eyes of a lively child. It is also a meaningful record of life for a deaf child and her family in the far reaches of Canada at the end of an era. Silent Observer is a beautiful, sensitive story that is sure ...

A Loss For Words
A deeply moving, often humorous, and beautiful account of what it means to be the hearing child of profoundly deaf parents.
Lou Ann Walker, Author
Published by Harper & Row, New York

Psychotherapy With Deaf and Hard of Hearing Persons
In this expanded and thoroughly updated second edition, Michael A. Harvey elaborates his pioneering biopsychosocial model of the effective assessment and treatment of deaf and hard-of-hearing clients in individual and family therapy. Taking a broad ecological perspec...

Hands of My Father
By turns heart-tugging and hilarious, Myron Uhlberg’s memoir tells the story of growing up as the hearing son of deaf parents—and his life in a world that he found unaccountably beautiful, even as he longed to escape it.
“Does sound have rhyt...

Hard of Hearing : Webster’s Timeline History
Webster's bibliographic and event-based timelines are comprehensive in scope, covering virtually all topics, geographic locations and people. They do so from a linguistic point of view, and in the case of this book, the focus is on "Hard-of-hearing," including when u...