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Volume Control: Hearing in a Deafening World
by David Owen
I have hearing loss and decided it was time to educate myself more about it, and about the technological advances in hearing aids, as well as options for not having to spend several thousand dollars per ear to improve hearing. It was informative, at times entertaining, and sometimes quite scientific but never less than engrossing. It also should be required reading for any teen who plays their music too loud, hunters, all of those who work in a noisy environment etc. The damage to your ears that seems to be temporary under those circumstances, is in fact not, but changes the physiology of your ear to brain transmission (OK that's how I interpreted the science). When the ringing goes away, even though the next hearing test shows no change, the damage is done. It includes a history of deaf education and different approaches that have been taken and explains lucidly, and for many people counter-intuitively how being the deaf child of deaf parents has huge advantages, rather than being the deaf child of hearing parents.