Chapter IV: The Deaf and the Hard of Hearing

Abstract

INVESTIGATORS in problems of the deaf and the hard of hearing have collected their research, organized their results, and published books that are valuable to the students preparing to teach, to test, and to continue research.Two of these were published at the same time and under the same title, but here the similarity ceased. Levine (1960) wrote her text from the rehabilitation point of view, stressed the psychosocial problems of deafness, and thus provided a guide for counselors and students interested in clinical testing. Myklebust (1960) stressed the limitations produced by sensory deprivation on the balance and equilibrium of all psychological processes. He included the results of his experimental work and many of the previously unpublished studies of his graduate students. Davis and Silverman (1960) revised Hearing and Deafness into a textbook for beginning students of audiology. They kept the original chapters intact, with additions to bring them up to date, and replaced the chapter on military aural rehabilitation with a new chapter on vocational guidance. Canfield (1959) wrote his handbook for the use of the person with a hearing impairment and his family.Wever translated and arranged the experiments of Von Bekesy (1960) into a volume that presents problems of auditory research, critical experiments in the field of hearing, and a discussion of cochlear mechanics.