Hear  Beyond, Gael Hannan
Hear  Beyond, Gael Hannan
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Hear & Beyond
Live Skillfully with Hearing Loss

Author: Gael Hannan, Shari Eberts

Narrator: Robin Siegerman

Unabridged: 5 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/07/2023


Synopsis

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 Gael Hannan

Gael Hannan is a hearing health advocate, writer, and speaker/performer who lives with profound hearing loss. She creates award-winning awareness projects that help people live more successfully with their hearing challenges, 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 that has a passionate international following. Gael lives on Vancouver Island.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Lindsey

A light and insightful read about living with hearing loss. I was able to meet Gael at the Canadian Audiology Conference this past year and her bubbly and humorous personality led me to read this book. As a 2nd year audiology student I will definitely recommend this to future patients of mine!......more

This is a wonderful book especially for those with recently acknowledged hearing loss. I've been dealing with diminishing hearing loss since my forties and found new insights and techniques that will be helping me with my communication struggles. Especially helpful were the sections on those in my l......more

Goodreads review by Debi

I have one sided deafness from an acoustic neuroma surgery. It’s a bit different from the conditions described in the book but I found some helpful tidbits. Mostly it was a good reminder that I am my own advocate and need to not be afraid to speak up when my disability creates an issue.......more