Becoming Hearing Empowered

A Guided Journal for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing

Katherine S Rybak

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Shine Press
16 September 2024

Teaching of physically disabled students; Coping with disability

REVISED EDITION.

Becoming Hearing Empowered offers an innovative way to address the challenges of hearing loss. Not only does it include the nuts and bolts of understanding your hearing loss, reading an audiogram, utilizing assistive technology, and personalizing accommodations, but it also offers the opportunity to consider the significant emotional impact straining to hear basic conversations can have on your well-being. Through guided journaling and creative activities, consider how negative experiences can derail your efforts to confidently move forward in social situations. Fight your internalized stigma, effectively and respectively refute accusations of ""selective hearing,"" and confidently disclose your hearing loss and your accommodation needs in any situation.

Hearing loss is a complex disability, strife with negative stigma that might have prevented you from seeking help for years, cutting you off from the social interaction you crave. It's important to know the nuts and bolts, but that knowledge won't do you any good if you are embarrassed to talk about your hearing loss and struggle to admit that you need support.

In this book, I apply my experience as a person with lifelong hearing loss and as a Teacher for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing to guide you toward Becoming Hearing Empowered!

By: Katherine S Rybak
Imprint: Shine Press
Edition: 2nd Revised ed.
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 191mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 685g
ISBN: 9798990936720
Pages: 296
Publication Date: 16 September 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Katherine Rybak has been a hard of hearing person since birth and founder of Hearing Out Loud(R). Hearing Out Loud's mission is to move people forward in their lives as strong self-advocates who celebrate their identity, embrace technology, and confidently implement strategies to make meaningful connections within their community. Katherine is a newly retired Teacher for the d/Deaf and Hard of Hearing, has earned her master's degree in education and is a National Board Certified Teacher. Katherine and her wife Carol have 3 grown children and 2 grandchildren. They live in their dream house on a little corner of Madison, Wisconsin. Katherine enjoys exploring her creativity in her upstairs writing/sewing studio, a walk in the sunshine with any of her 3 daughters, and playing on the floor with her grandchildren.

Reviews for Becoming Hearing Empowered: A Guided Journal for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing

Becoming Hearing Empowered is EXACTLY the wonderful resource I had been seeking following sudden single-sided deafness 3 years ago. It is like sitting with a caring friend who is helping you understand your hearing loss with your mind, body and spirit. Beautifully designed, the format welcomes you to explore in a kinesthetic and deeply personal way. I learned from books that others wrote about their hearing loss journey but Katherine's book invited me to consider and express MY journey.