Making Music with a Hearing Loss: Strategies and Stories

New edition of book encourages musicians with hearing loss, their audiologists and music instructors
 
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GAITHERSBURG, Md. - Oct. 10, 2016 - PRLog -- The Association of Adult Musicians with Hearing Loss (AAMHL) is pleased to announce that their book, Making Music with a Hearing Loss: Strategies and Stories, now has a second edition. In addition to discussing the challenges of programming hearing aids for musical performance, this edition also includes additional chapters on the challenges of programming cochlear implants for music performance and discusses coping strategies when music does not sound as it did before. This collaborative work is edited by Wendy Cheng and Willa Horowitz, Au.D. and written by audiologists Dr. Marshall Chasin and Dr. Brad Ingrao. It also includes personal narratives and strategies from 23 adult musicians with hearing loss who live around the world.

The book is available for $19.99 USD (paperback) and $9.99 USD for the Kindle version. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LI47ARW

A list of international Amazon sites where the Kindle edition can be purchased is at http://bit.ly/aamhlbook2.

Dr. Willa Horowitz, Au.D., (Owner/Audiologist) of Acuity Hearing Solutions LLC, Home Visit Hearing Health Care Services, holds the Certificate of Clinical Competence in Audiology from the American Speech, Language and Hearing Association and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Audiology. She earned her Audiology doctorate from A.T. Still Unversity-Arizona School of Health Science. She has over 30 years of experience in testing, diagnosing, and rehabilitating various types of hearing loss. Dr. Horowitz serves on the board of directors of the Association of Adult Musicians with Hearing Loss (AAMHL).

Dr. Marshall Chasin is the Director of Auditory Research at the Musicians' Clinics of Canada in Toronto, the Coordinator of Research at the Canadian Hearing Society, and the Director of Research at ListenUp Canada. He has authored several books on hearing, hearing aids, musicians and noise exposure and over 100 clinically based articles. In 2003, he obtained his Au.D. from the Arizona School of Health Sciences.

Dr. Brad Ingrao has a long history of responding to the needs of consumers, parents and colleagues through his participation on over a dozen hearing loss-related listservs and a pro-bono website for parents. Dr. Ingrao is now principal audiologist and consultant for e-audiology.net.

Wendy Cheng is the founder and president of the Association of Adult Musicians with Hearing Loss (AAMHL). She is an enthusiastic viola student and handbell ringer, and leads a small ringing ensemble at her place of work.

Founded in 2001, the mission of the Association of Adult Musicians with Hearing Loss is to

1) create opportunities for adult musicians with hearing loss to discuss the challenges they face in making and listening to music;

2) create opportunities for public performance either individually or in groups by adult musicians with hearing loss who might not otherwise have access to these opportunities;

3) provide ongoing feedback to hearing health professionals, hearing researchers, manufacturers of hearing assistive technology, music educators and others to improve hearing device technology relative to music performance and enjoyment; and to

4) provide educational opportunities to enable hard of hearing and deaf adults to appreciate and make music in ways not previously available.

Contact
Association of Adult Musicians with Hearing Loss
***@musicianswithhearingloss.org

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