Impact of Genetic Hearing Impairment

ISBN: 978-1-86156-437-5

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264 pages

October 2006

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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.