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by Marilyn M. Helleberg, 257 pp, with illus, $12.95, Chicago, Nelson-Hall, 1979.

SHARON FUJIKAWA, PHD, Reviewer
Orange, Calif

Arch Otolaryngol. 1980;106(5):310.

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This book is written for persons with a hearing loss and their families and seeks to provide information related to the hearing impairment. Since the general public has a great deal of misinformation regarding this impairment, a book written for a popular audience is certainly needed. The author, in translating complex technical information into lay terms, should be commended for giving factual data regarding what we know of hearing loss today. Using a question and answer format, the author attempts to write a "heart-level" book. Unfortunately, in doing so, she uses a folksy style that may not appeal to the more sophisticated hearing-impaired person. Many of the photographs are out of date and the sketches are so poor as to add very little information to the text. The references are marginal in terms of including the most productive researchers and in terms of being up to date, eg, some references . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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