Impact of Genetic Hearing Impairment,9781861564375

Impact of Genetic Hearing Impairment

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9781861564375
ISBN10: 1861564376
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2006-10-06
Publisher(s): Wiley
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Summary

"This book examines the social and psychological effects of genetic deafness, hearing impairment and the genetic interventions associated with them. The contributors present informed views within the rapidly changing field of genetic intervention from medical, psychological, sociological and political perspectives. The book also includes two autobiographical chapters by contributors who outline the impact genetic hearing impairment and genetic deafblindness has had on their lives." "Reflecting the enormous developments in the area over the last 20 years, this is an invaluable resource for clinicians, teachers, politicians and all professionals involved with people with hearing impairments."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Dafydd Stephens FRCP, is Honorary Professor of Audiological Medicine at Cardiff University, Wales, UK. Sophia E. Kramer, PhD, is Senior Researcher and Psychologist at the Department of E.N.T. / Audiology / EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research at the VU University Medical Centre in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Table of Contents

List of contributors
vii
Preface xi
Acknowledgements xv
Future perfect: social aspects of genetics and deafness
1(10)
Lesley Jones
Parents' attitudes towards genetic testing and the impact of deafness in the family
11(43)
Anna Middleton
The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health as a conceptual framework for the impact of genetic hearing impairment
54(14)
Dafydd Stephens
Berth Danermark
A common methodology for reviewing the impact of hearing impairment
68(5)
Berth Danermark
Sophia Kramer
Dafydd Stephens
The impact of hearing impairment in children
73(33)
Dafydd Stephens
A review of the psychosocial effects of hearing impairment in the working-age population
106(31)
Berth Danermark
The psychosocial impact of hearing loss among elderly people: a review
137(28)
Sophia Kramer
The impact of combined vision and hearing impairment and of deafblindness
165(30)
Kerstin Moller
The effects of otosclerosis
195(6)
Nele Lemkens
Psychosocial aspects of neurofibromatosis type 2
201(18)
Wanda Neary
Richard Ramsden
Gareth Evans
Michael Baser
Moving forward: a life of changes
219(17)
Patricia Lago-Avery
My genetic deafness
236(6)
Jill Jones
Glossary 242(3)
Index 245

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