01802nam a22001697a 4500020001500000082001900015245008300034260004600117300003900163505125500202650003301457650002401490650004201514650003701556700002101593700001801614  a1861564376  a617.8042 STE J  aImpact of Genetic Hearing ImpairmentcEdited by Dafydd Stephens & Lesley Jones  aChichesterbJohn Wiley and Sons Ltdc2006  a264 pagesb162 x 230 x 16mm | 448g  aList 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.  aDisability: Social Aspects    aAudiology & Otology  aSpeech & Language Disorders & Therapy  aHereditary Diseases & Disorders   aStephens, Dafydd  aJones, Lesley