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edited by Brian Bolton, 156 pp, $14.50, Baltimore, University Park Press, 1976.

A. SUSAN AMENT, MA, Reviewer
San Francisco

Arch Otolaryngol. 1976;102(12):762.

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As the title implies, the book addresses itself mainly to principles and techniques that are valuable in the counseling and rehabilitation of deaf clients. Deafness, while constituting an invisible handicap to many people, is treated by the authors as a devastating disability, as it indeed is. Much of the content of the book deals with the impact of deafness on specific areas of human development and functioning, including communicative, intellectual, personality, vocational, academic, and psychiatric aspects. References at the end of each of the nine chapters provide the reader with a good bibliography pertaining to these aspects of deafness.

An excellent chapter of early intervention programs is presented, and the needs of parents of deaf infants are discussed thoroughly. The necessity of alerting the medical community to assist in early identification of hearing-impaired infants is stressed. Once the hearing-impaired infant is identified, resources for obtaining assistance for the child and . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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