Everything You Need to Know About Deafness (Need to Know Library) [Library Binding]

Carol Basinger (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 2000 | Series: Need to Know Library

This book discusses the causes of deafness, the types of deafness that can be identified, the effects of deafness on people's lives, and the help that exists for the hearing impaired.

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

Gr 4-7-Beginning with a fictionalized account of someone hearing about Gallaudet College, Basinger goes on to explain how the human ear works, what causes deafness, and how hearing impairments affect people's lives. Unfortunately, the information is confusing and incomplete, and the photos show lightning and people taking hearing tests instead of elucidating the text. The discussion of how the ear works reads, "One end of the malleus, or hammer, bone is attached to the eardrum; the other end of the malleus is attached to the incus, or anvil, bone." None of this is illustrated. Instead, a photo on the next page shows a girl blowing her nose to open her eustachian tubes. In a muddled description of degrees of hearing impairment, readers learn that "A person who needs a decibel level of 90 to hear 2000 Hz, 60 dB to hear 1000 Hz, and 10 dB to hear 500 Hz would have a pure-tone average of 53 dB." For this kind of information, young readers need lots of visual aids. For a better treatment of the topic, try Elaine Landau's Deafness (21st Century, 1995).-Christine A. Moesch, Buffalo & Erie County Public Library, NY

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Product Details

• Library Binding: 64 pages
• Publisher: Rosen Pub Group; 1st edition (January 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 082393165X
• ISBN-13: 978-0823931651
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,938,188 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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