Hear & Beyond: Live Skillfully with Hearing Loss

Shari Eberts · Gael Hannan

Mar 2023 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Robin Siegerman

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5 hr 59 min

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Hearing loss doesn't come with an operating manual-until now. If you have hearing loss, you already know that the conventional approach to treatment is focused on hearing-aid technology. Without a handbook to help you figure out how to actually live with it, you've likely been getting by on information pieced together from various sources-and yet, communication often seems incomplete and unsatisfying. What's missing from this hearing care model is the big picture-a real-life illustration of how hearing loss, its emotions, and its barriers affect every corner of your life. Now, hearing-health advocates, consultants, and speakers Shari Eberts and Gael Hannan offer a new skills-based approach to hearing loss that is centered not on hearing better, but on communicating better. With honesty and humor, they share their own hearing loss journeys, and outline invaluable insights, strategies, and workarounds to help you engage with the world and be heard. You'll gain tips for navigating all areas impacted by hearing loss, including relationships, work, technology; strategies for adopting a new, empowering mindset towards your hearing loss; and communication behaviors that can make almost any listening situation manageable. Hearing loss is just one aspect of who you are. You may have hearing loss, but it doesn't have to have you.

About the author

Shari Eberts is a passionate hearing health advocate and internationally recognized author and speaker on hearing loss issues. She is the founder of livingwithhearingloss.com, a blog and online community for people with hearing loss, and an executive producer of We Hear You, an award-winning documentary about hearing loss.

Gael Hannan is a hearing health advocate, writer, and speaker/performer who lives with profound hearing loss. She creates award-winning awareness projects, including the acclaimed one-woman show Unheard Voices, a humorous memoir, The Way I Hear It: A Life with Hearing Loss, and a regular blog for hearinghealthmatters.org.

Robin Siegerman is an actor, voice-over artist, and AudioFile Earphones Award-winning audiobook narrator. With an additional background as an internationally award-winning interior designer, author of Renovation Bootcamp: Kitchen, and conference speaker, she loves to "make movies for the ears."

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