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" Overcoming hearing aid fears : "
John M. Burkey.
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BL
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1018256
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b772626
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| Main Entry
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Burkey, John M.,1959-
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Overcoming hearing aid fears : : the road to better hearing /\ John M. Burkey.
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New Brunswick, N.J. :: Rutgers University Press,, ©2003.
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1 online resource (ix, 175 pages) :: illustrations
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0813533090
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: 0813534879
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: 9780813534879
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0813533090
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0813533104
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-170) and index.
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Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Medical Observations on the Normal, Impaired, and Aided Ear; 2 Denial and Acceptance of Hearing Loss; 3 Appearance and Deeper Concerns; 4 Fears and Doubts; 5 Benefits for a Hearing Aid User; 6 Benefits for Friends and Family; 7 Hearing Aids 101; 8 Cost; 9 Rejoining the Hearing World; Glossary; References; Index.
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Approximately 10 percent of Americans (and nearly one-third of people age seventy and older) have some degree of hearing loss that, if left untreated, causes frustration, isolation, and depression. A hearing aid is a simple tool to improve careers, relationships, and self-esteem, and to provide independence and security. Yet of the nearly thirty million people with a hearing impairment, only about 20 percent choose to use one. This is true despite the fact that technological advances have enabled hearing aids to address a greater range of hearing losses, while making them smaller, better desig.
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Hearing aids, Popular works.
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HEALTH FITNESS-- Hearing Speech.
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Hearing aids.
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MEDICAL-- Audiology Speech Pathology.
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Hearing Aids-- psychology, Popular Works.
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Hearing Impaired Persons-- psychology, Popular Works.
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| Dewey Classification
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617.8/9
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RF300.B87 2003eb
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2003 M-331
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WV 274B959o 2003
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