An overview of hearing disorders -- Hearing loss can upset balance as well as communication -- Loud music induces hearing loss -- Newborns should be screened for potential hearing problems -- Hearing aids help those with hearing loss -- Cochlear implants can restore hearing -- Deafness is a culture, like any other -- Deafness does not amount to a separate culture -- Deafness is a disability -- Deafness hould not be treated as a disability -- Cochlear implants are good for the deaf -- Cochlear implants are bad for the deaf -- The sounds of silence -- Growing up with deaf parents -- coping with the loss of both sight and hearing -- Hearing loss creeps up on a naval officer -- Like father, like daughter...or maybe not -- Glossary -- Chronology.
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