Living with Hearing Difficulties
The process of enablement
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Beschreibung
Living with Hearing Difficulties is a source-book forprofessionals who encounter and support individuals with hearingdifficulties. It will also be of interest to people with hearingdifficulties themselves and those close to them. The bookhighlights the concept of audiological enablement as being aninteractive process requiring the active involvement of bothclinician and patient.
The thirteen chapters encompass four sections which broadlyfollow the categories of the World Health Organization's ICF(2001):
* Section 1 addresses types of hearing disorders, the impairmentsthey cause and also the process of help seeking.
* Section 2 deals with the effects of hearing impairment oncommunication and psychosocial functioning.
* Section 3 considers the individual in their environment; theirfamily, work, and leisure. Section 4 elaborates on the process ofenablement in a non-prescriptive manner.
The authors approach the problems and needs from the standpointof what the patient/client is seeking. Enablement is seen as a teameffort between the professionals, the patient and their family inan ever-changing environment. This entails using any relevanttechniques to ensure the well-being of the individual with hearingimpairment; that end remains very much their goal.
The book also has a companion website www.wiley.com/go/stephenswhich hosts additional downloadable documents as well as ademonstration of the concept of the signal-to-noise ratio.
Autor*in
Dafydd Stephens
Themen in »Living with Hearing Difficulties«
Audiologie Audiology Gesundheits- u. Sozialwesen Health & Social Care