Smart Hearing: Strategies, Skills, and Resources for Living Better with Hearing Loss

Excellent guide and resource for those on a hearing loss journey. Inspiring. Engaging. Uses great personal anedotes and extensive research. She offers valuable tips from interacting with others to exploring your various options. She covers the stages a hearing loss person goes through, as she too experienced... I speak from experience too. At 4, suddenly major loss of high frequency in both ears. Like her, had to use speech therapy to relearn speaking. Learn lip reading...But for next 60 years hearing aids wouldn't make a difference for my condition. My understanding of movies & tv drop to 30%, even at high volume. But recent training enable me to now use hearing aid. And yes, I went through the same stages before getting hearing aids, just much more rapidly. What a difference! Read her book! Take action. Test various solutions. Find the best one for you. I went through 3 before found a great solution.

Katherine Bouton is herself a hard of hearing person and a New York Times writer. I am president of a hard of hearing membership organization and used this book in our Readers Club. Many of the members of the group are extremely well educated consumers and one a professional. Every chapter brought affirmation and new perspectives. The book covers the whole spectrum of hearing health--is very readable by any consumer. Even includes a couple of chapters of dealing with hearing loss in the work-place. Any one who has hearing loss or a mate, family member or good friend with hearing loss should read this book.

This was a big help to a senior citizen regarding the world of hearing aids. Glad I bought it.

Many helpful tips to improve use of hearing aids

Not a bad book but did not contain information that could not be found for free on the Internet.

Very much liked the book. Helps me understand that hearing impairment can remain as a strong handicap to cope with even with the best technology currently available.

The printing and binding of the book are defective. I bought a new Amazon prime item that arrived as shown in the photos.

This book is a must-read for anyone who suspects they have hearing loss as well as for those, like me, who have lived with hearing loss for decades. Katherine Bouton has done the research and provides up-to-date resources addressing personal and professional issues that impact living well with hearing loss. You don’t need to look anywhere else - the answers are in this book!