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Impact of Genetic Hearing Impairment Edited by Dafydd Stephens & Lesley Jones - Chichester John Wiley and Sons Ltd 2006 - 264 pages 162 x 230 x 16mm | 448g

List of contributors.Preface.Acknowledgements.Chapter 1 Future perfect: social aspects of genetics and deafness - Lesley Jones.Chapter 2Parents' attitudes towards genetic testing and the impact of deafness in the family - Anna Middleton.Chapter 3 The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health as a conceptural framework for the impact of genetic hearing impairment - Dafydd Stephens and Berth Danermark.Chapter 4 A common methodology for reviewing the impact of hearing impairment - Berth Danermark, Sophia Kramer and Dafydd Stephens.Chapter 5 The impact of hearing impairment in children - Dafydd Stephens.Chapter 6 A review of the psychosocial effects of hearing impairment in the working-age population - Berth Danermark.Chapter 7 The psychosocial impact of hearing loss among elderly people: a review - Sophia Kramer.Chapter 8 The impact of combined vision and hearing impairment and of deafblindness - Kerstin Moller.Chapter 9 The effects of otosclerosis - Nele Lemkens.Chapter 10 Psychosocial aspects of neurofibromatosis type 2 - Wanda Neary, Richard Ramsden, Gareth Evans and Michael Baser.Chapter 11 Moving forward: a life of changes - Pathricia Lago-Avery.Chapter 12 My genetic deafness - Jill Jones.Glossary.Index.

ISBN: 1861564376

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Disability: Social Aspects
Audiology & Otology
Speech & Language Disorders & Therapy
Hereditary Diseases & Disorders

Dewey Class. No.: 617.8042 STE J