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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There's a book called [i]Shouting won't help[/i], by Katherine Bouton, that you should read. Bouton is a New York Times editor who was hard of hearing for most of her life, then became deaf. Among other things, the book has a list of things you can do to help a person who is hard of hearing to understand you. Most of them you could explain to your daughter -- for instance, when she speaks to her grandfather she should make sure that she is facing him. I don't remember all of them.[/quote] Does the book address elderly people who have "checked out"? At 81, sometimes resisting a hearing aid is about avoiding younger people's demands for constant conversation/interaction.[/quote]
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