Author: John M. Burkey
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Keywords: hearing, road, fears, aid, overcoming
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2003-10-01
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0813533104
ISBN-13: 9780813533100

Approximately 10 percent of Americans (and nearly one-third of people age seventy and older) have some degree of hearing loss that, if left untreated, causes frustration, isolation, and depression. A hearing aid is a simple tool to improve careers, relationships, and self-esteem, and to provide independence and security. Yet of the nearly thirty million people with a hearing impairment, only about 20 percent choose to use one. This is true despite the fact that technological advances have enabled hearing aids to address a greater range of hearing losses, while making them smaller, better desi

Author: Susan Dalebout
Publisher: Praeger
Keywords: hearing, treatment, prevention, assessment, loss, guide, praeger
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2008-12-30
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0313364761
ISBN-13: 9780313364761

More than 31 million people in the United States alone suffer from hearing loss - that is one in every 10 people in the current population. Of those, only five to 10 percent can be treated medically, leaving the largest number in need of other solutions. It is for those people that veteran audiologist Susan Dalebout wrote this comprehensive guide. The book explains, with a simple overview of hearing anatomy and physiology, how we hear, and details hearing evaluation tests, the interpretation of those tests, and the conditions that most commonly cause hearing loss in adults. All things related

Author: Committee on Noise-Induced Hearing Loss and Tinnit
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: loss, tinnitus, hearing, implications, military, service, noise
Number of Pages: 338
Published: 2005-12-20
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0309099498
ISBN-13: 9780309099493

The Institute of Medicine carried out a study mandated by Congress and sponsored by the Department of Veterans Affairs to provide an assessment of several issues related to noise-induced hearing loss and tinnitus associated with service in the Armed Forces since World War II. The resulting book, "Noise and Military Service: Implications for Hearing Loss and Tinnitus", presents findings on the presence of hazardous noise in military settings, levels of noise exposure necessary to cause hearing loss or tinnitus, risk factors for noise-induced hearing loss and tinnitus, the timing of the effects

Author: Committee to Review the NIOSH Hearing Loss Researc
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: research, institute, occupational, safety, national, health, programs, loss, niosh, reviews, hearing
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2006-11-17
List price: $48.75
ISBN-10: 030910274X
ISBN-13: 9780309102742

Presents the report of the Committee to Review the NIOSH Hearing Loss Research Program. Topics include evaluation of the hearing loss research program, recommendations for program improvement, and more. For practitioners.

Author: Kay Woodward
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing
Keywords: senses, hearing
Number of Pages: 24
Published: 2005-01
List price: $23.00
ISBN-10: 0836844068
ISBN-13: 9780836844061

You hear sounds all the time - some are high screeches and some are low rumbles; some are loud bangs and some are soft whispers. Find out how you use your sense of hearing to listen to all these incredible sounds. Discover how people who can’t hear use sign language to communicate, how a bat uses echoes to locate things around it and how some minibeasts hear things through their legs. Large, fascinating photographs help to bring the simple text to life and a colourful diagram clearly explains how humans are able to hear things. Two pages of activities encourage children to interact with

Author: John Lescroart
Publisher: Signet
Keywords: hearing
Number of Pages: 560
Published: 2002-02-01
List price: $9.99
ISBN-10: 0451204891
ISBN-13: 9780451204899

Hardy’s best friend, Lieutenant Abe Glitsky, has kept a secret from him...and everyone else. Hardy never knew that Abe had a daughter-until she was shot dead. It seems obvious that the heroin addict hovering over her body with a gun is the guilty party, and Glitsky has few qualms about sweating a confession out of him. But there is more to this murder-much more. And as both Hardy and Glitsky risk their lives to uncover the truth, others are working hard to stop them. "A Riveting legal thriller." (Booklist)

Author: Christopher J. Plack
Publisher: Psychology Pre
Keywords: hearing, sense
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2005-05-01
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0805848843
ISBN-13: 9780805848847

The Sense of Hearing is a truly accessible introduction to auditory perception that is intended for students approaching the subject for the first time, and as a foundation for more advanced study. In clear and authoritative prose, the fundamental aspects of hearing are addressed. The reader is introduced to the nature of sound and the spectrum, and the anatomy and physiology of the auditory system. Basic auditory processes including frequency selectivity, loudness and pitch perception, temporal resolution, and sound localization are explained. The reader is led to an understanding of the rema