Hearing Differently: The Impact of Hearing Impairment on Family Life Book

9101017551040020724294experience with profound hearing loss and her roles as wife, mother, social worker and counsellor, suggest that the complexities involved might be explored more fruitfully by using an intensive and repetitive interviewing technique. This book explores and analyzes 150 interviews with hearing impaired people, including eleven couples in committed relationships where one partner is hearing and the other is hearing impaired. Detailed information was obtained about the way each couple managed conflict, decision making, household chores, communication, and perceived the hearing impairment within their relationship.|Five major strands emerge: intimate family relationships, social support networks, communication strategies, the nature of care and recommendations for social policy. By drawing from the fields of family therapy, marital therapy, counselling, family sociology, social policy, psychology, social psychology and linguistics, as well as disability and deafness, a broader and more positive picture emerges Read More