The Deaf Services Center has resources on these topics:
- Late-deafness
- Assistive devices (including implants)
- Hearing loss organizations
- Causes of hearing loss (medical, noise-induced)
- Vertigo
- Otosclerosis (bone growth in the ear)
- Audiology
Following are a list of resources that can serve as a starting point for research on topics related to hearing loss.
- Living with hearing loss : the sourcebook of deafness and hearing disorders / Carol Turkington and Allan Sussman.
- The first part of this book focuses on on identifying hearing losses, and getting assistive devices. The second part is an “encyclopedia” of information related to hearing loss.
- Living with hearing loss : workbook / by Sam Trychin.
- Tips on dealing with hearing loss in social situations with exercises.
- Mayo Clinic on hearing / Wayne Olsen, editor-in-chief.
- The first part of this book explains hearing loss. Second part discusses ways to deal with hearing loss.
- On the fence : the hidden world of the hard of hearing / Mark Drolsbaugh
- A collection of short essays by hard of hearing people.
- On the job with hearing loss : hidden challenges, successful solutions / Rebecca A. Morris.
- Tips on coping with hearing loss in the workplace with examples.
- Shouting won't help : why I -- and 50 million other Americans -- can't hear you / Katherine Bouton.
- A New York Times editor writes of her experience becoming deaf and how it affected her life. She includes conversations with various experts and people affected by hearing loss, then writes of her experience in getting a cochlear implant and adjusting to it.
- Information from the U.S. Department of Labor for employers/employees.
- Learn to lipread / by Virginia McKinney.
- Book with DVD for lipreading practice.
- What did you say? : an unexpected journey into the world of hearing loss / Monique E. Hammond.
- The writer draws on her experience with hearing loss to advise others.
- Sound sense : living and learning with hearing loss / Sara Laufer Batinovich.
- Batinovich presents guidance in turning every challenge into an opportunity to become one's best self-advocate.
- I've lost my what??? : a practical guide to life after deafness / by Shawn Lovley.
- A book about assistive devices, the psychology of adult-onset deafness, communication, relationships, cochlear implants, hearing aids, the Americans with Disabilities Act, telephone use, and daily life for people who've gone deaf post-lingually
- Protecting your hearing / National Institutes of Health
- An online video on noise-induced hearing loss.
- Tinnitus : turning the volume down / Kevin Hogan, Jennifer Battaglino
- Strategies for quieting the noise in your head
- Ototoxic drugs exposed / Neil G. Bauman
- A listing of 1,000 drugs, herbals and chemicals that can damage your ears.
- Files on various topics related to hearing loss including tinnitus, vertigo, assistive devices, hearing ear dogs, and causes of degenerative hearing loss are available. Please see the Deaf Services staff for assistance.