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Hearing loss doesn't come with an operating manual--until now. If you have hearing loss, you already know that the conventional approach to treatment is focused on hearing-aid technology. Without a handbook to help you figure out how to actually live with it, you've likely been getting by on information pieced together from various sources--and yet, communication often seems incomplete and unsatisfying. What's missing from this hearing care model is the big picture--a real-life illustration of how hearing loss, its emotions, and its barriers affect every corner of your life. Now, hearing-health advocates, consultants, and speakers Shari Eberts and Gael Hannan offer a new skills-based approach to hearing loss that is centered not on hearing better, but on communicating better. With honesty and humor, they share their own hearing loss journeys, and outline invaluable insights, strategies, and workarounds to help you engage with the world and be heard. You'll gain tips for navigating all areas impacted by hearing loss, including relationships, work, technology; strategies for adopting a new, empowering mindset towards your hearing loss; and communication behaviors that can make almost any listening situation manageable. Hearing loss is just one aspect of who you are. You may have hearing loss, but it doesn't have to have you.

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Shari Eberts is a passionate hearing health advocate and internationally recognized author and speaker on hearing loss issues. She is the founder of livingwithhearingloss.com, a popular blog and online community for people with hearing loss, and an executive producer of We Hear You, an award-winning documentary about the hearing loss experience. Shari has an adult-onset genetic hearing loss and hopes that by sharing her story, she will help others to live more peacefully with their own hearing issues. She lives in New York City. Gael Hannan is a hearing health advocate, writer, and speaker/performer who lives with profound hearing loss. She creates award-winning awareness projects that help people live more successfully with their hearing challenges, including the acclaimed one-woman show Unheard Voices, a humorous memoir, The Way I Hear It: A Life with Hearing Loss, and a regular blog for hearinghealthmatters.org that has a passionate international following. Gael lives on Vancouver Island. Robin Siegerman is a trained actor, improv artist, and audiobook narrator as well as an award-winning interior designer, author, and speaker. Originally from Montreal, she grew up speaking English and French. When not working or training, she can be found spending time with her rescue dogs or playing board games with her family.

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