Integrating Hearing Loss into One's Life

Bibliographic Data

ID5455571
AuthorsKaye Herth (0000-0001-8514-0229, Georgia Southern University, corresponding author)
Year1998
Volume8
Issue2
Pages207-223
Publication date1998-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueQualitative Health Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1049-7323 • E-ISSN: 1552-7557
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/104973239800800205
PMID10558329
OpenAlexW2146095121
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited19

Hearing loss is the single most prevalent chronic physical disability in the United States. Little is known about the experience of integrating hearing loss as a part of one's life, particularly from the perspective of the hearing-impaired person. This phenomenological inquiry explored how adults with onset of hearing loss after acquisition of language integrate the hearing loss into their lives. The author interviewed 32 deafened adults. Using a modification of P. F. Colaizzi's method of data analysis, four distinct themes, each with subthemes, emerged around a core variable labeled as dancing with. These themes were dancing with loss and fear, dancing with fluctuating feelings, dancing with courage amidst change, and dancing with an altered life perspective. This study provides a beginning understanding of how people integrate a hearing loss into their lives and is the first step in developing and implementing appropriate strategies to provide assistance to others experiencing hearing loss

Audiology · Courage · Developmental psychology · Feeling · Hearing loss · Computer Science · Hearing Impairment and Communication · Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation · Medicine · Noise Effects and Management · Psychology · Social Psychology

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