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  • Living with Hearing Loss and Deafness

  • A Guide to Owning It and Loving It
  • By: Samantha Baines
  • Narrated by: Samantha Baines
  • Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
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Summary

A warm and down-to-earth exploration of hearing loss and deafness.

Featuring the author's own experiences of deafness, this audiobook is about how to understand, live and thrive with hearing loss - a humorous yet informative place to turn for the millions of people in the UK who have hearing loss or deafness. Including interviews with experts from the RNID, audiologists, deaf activists and people who use and teach sign language, as well as facts and anecdotes about:

  • The first signs of hearing loss
  • Tinnitus
  • What to expect at a hearing test
  • Will I lose my job?
  • What are hearing aids and why do you need them
  • Top fears about hearing aids
  • Deaf dating
  • Lipreading
  • What is sign language?
  • What not to say to someone with hearing loss
  • Supportive charities and organisations

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
©2023 Samantha Baines (P)2023 Headline Publishing Group Limited
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This book is important. (Mark Atkinson, CEO of the Royal National Institute for Deaf People)
Heartfelt and hilarious - deaf awareness beautifully told through Sam's unique voice. (Laura Whitmore)
Samantha is a strong and powerful woman who talks so openly about her life and about being a part of the deaf community. To have someone who wants to help and wants to make a difference is so important and Sam is that person. (Gaby Roslin)

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Delightful, splendid, and informative!!

A really wonderful book!

This book was really informative and has helped me embrace my own deaf identity, after years of feeling that I’m not hearing enough for one world or deaf enough for another.

I feel like everyone who knows or works with deaf people should have read it as a ‘this is what it’s like’ guide, as many professionals don’t seem to ‘get it’.

Also I think this might be one of the first deaf friendly audiobooks as Samantha’s delivery was exceptional. clear and had fluency but a little bit slower to allow for processing time.

Thank you!

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Super stuff

informative and fun, entertainingly witty writing about deafness, the narration is brilliant, spoken with a energising yet relaxed tone.

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