Bev Biderman is a long-time friend of EASI.  This amazing book is both
highly personal and technical about new technologies that permit some
deaf people to regain some hearing.  Bev, we congratulate you.

Norman coombs [log in to unmask]

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Announcement:

Wired for Sound: A Journey into Hearing

A New Book on Cochlear Implants
by Beverly Biderman

ISBN: 1-895579-32-5
240 pages, soft cover, illus., index
Trifolium Books Inc.
Can: $24.95 US: $21.95

Beverly Biderman's new book on cochlear implants, Wired for
Sound: A Journey into Hearing, with a foreword by John
Niparko M.D., Director, The Listening Center at Johns
Hopkins, is now available.  The author uses her own
experiences in growing up deaf and obtaining a cochlear
implant as an adult as the backbone for a comprehensive
treatment of deafness and cochlear implants.  Cochlear
implants are the first effective artificial sensory organ to
be developed for human beings.

Oliver Sacks M.D., author of Seeing Voices, calls it "rare
in its combining of the technical and the personal ... an
important contribution to this complex and vexed area."
Sacks says:

"Those of us who are hearing tend to take the world of sound
for granted. We cannot imagine or recollect hearing sound
for the first time, for this early experience is lost in
infancy. But it is exactly this - the experience of sound as
revelation, that Beverly Biderman evokes. Wired for Sound is
a unique personal account, an adventure (sometimes
delightful, sometimes terrifying, often funny and poignant)
into a new world of sound, acquired through a cochlear
implant after 30 years of deafness.  Cochlear implants are
not for everyone -- perhaps they are only for very few.
This book is the story of one woman for whom the cochlear
implant did work, a beautiful account full of wonder and
surprises."

Wired for Sound is the first book containing a full account
of both the technical and psychosocial aspects of cochlear
implants written from the "inside out" by a cochlear implant
user.  The author, who has worn a cochlear implant since
1993, is a computing analyst at the University of Toronto, a
director of the Canadian Hearing Society, and an associate
editor of Cochlear Implant Club International's quarterly
journal, CONTACT.

For further information, visit Trifolium's web site at
www.pubcouncil.ca/trifolium, call (416) 483-7211 or e-mail
[log in to unmask] The book can be ordered at bookstores
everywhere, or from the distributor: 1-800-805-1083 in the
U.S.; 1-800 387-0141 in Ontario and Quebec; 1-800-387-0172
elsewhere in Canada; or [log in to unmask]
by e-mail. Reviews and ordering information are also posted
online at www.amazon.com.

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