Hearing loss now strikes one in seven people but how to study the
impact of hearing loss on relationships has continually baffled
researchers. The authors' personal experience with profound hearing
loss and her roles as wife, mother, social worker and counsellor,
suggest that the complexities involved might be fruitfully explored
by using an intensive and repetitive interviewing technique.
This book explores and analyses 150 in-depth 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
new broader and more positive picture emerges.
This ground-breaking book is aimed at professionals who would
like to work more effectively with deaf and hearing impaired
people. Although not a 'How to Cope' book, it will also interest
hearing impaired people themselves because of the enormous number
of insights offered.
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