Index

Hearing Loss and Deafness

Section 1 – Some information which may help you to understand your own deafness 

Section 2 – Will anything help me to hear better? Will anything help me to manage better?

Section 3 – What should I do if I have a hearing loss? Go to your doctor (your GP)

Section 4 – I don’t think that I am deaf. It’s other people who think that I am deaf.

Hearing Aids

Section 5 – Is it worth getting a hearing aid?

Section 6 – One hearing aid or two hearing aids?

Section 7 – Hopes and expectations about hearing aids

Section 8 – On your first or follow up visits to the hospital

Section 9 –  Hearing aids and hearing aid moulds

Section 10 – Digital and analogue hearing aids

Section 11 – General tips on using hearing aids and listening

Methods of Communicating

Section 12 – Lipreading

Section 13- Writing 

Section 14 – Fingerspelling

Section 15 – Sign Language

Section 16 – Alternative methods of communication

Strategies for communicating

Section 17 – Getting good environmental conditions for listening and lipreading

Section 18 – Leading the conversation in a tactful way

Section 19 – To avoid interrupting a speaker

Section 20 – “Checking” (making sure that you know exactly what has been said)

Section 21 – Using badges and communication cards to let people know you have a hearing loss

Section 22 – Some ideas on easing some of the difficulties with other people

Section 23 – Own Voice

Section 24 – The Ear Symbol 

Section 25 – Deaf Centres

Conditions related to deafness

Section 26 – Meniere’s Disease

Section 27 – Tinnitus

Section 28 – Loudness Recruitment and Hyperacusis

Section 29 – Relaxation

Section 30 – Acoustic Neuroma

Section 31 – Otosclerosis

Section 32 – Usher Syndrome

How the speaker can help

Section 40 – Helpful tips for anybody who speaks to deafpeople