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Katherine Bouton

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#009.  Please understand this…shouting won’t help me hear you better!  A discussion with Katherine Bouton.  Katherine is an advocate and educator for the deaf and hard of hearing. Her recent book is “Smart Hearing: Strategies, Skills, and Resources for Living Better with Hearing Loss” (October 2018).  She is also the author of “Shouting Won’t Help,”(2013), a memoir of losing her hearing in midlife and how it affected her, and of “Living Better with Hearing Loss” (2015).  Katherine’s books are available at Amazon.com or at your favorite independent bookstore.Her 40-year career in journalism began at The New Yorker and concluded with 22 years at The New York Times. She traveled the world as a free-lance magazine writer as well.Katherine is a frequent speaker on hearing loss issues and speaks to both professional and hearing loss groups. She can be reached at katherinebouton@gmail.com.She is Vice President of the New York City Chapter of the Hearing Loss Association of America and was until recently a member of the National Board of Trustees of HLAA.     Author: Amazon.com     Blog: Smart HearingHearing Loss Association of America, NYC Chapter Terminalia, poems by Daniel Menaker, order here. If you would like to tell your story or have suggestions for topics or guest, email us at experiencelifealoud@gmail.comVisit us online at www.yourlifealoud.comConnect with us on social media!Twitter:  http://twitter.com/livelifealoudFacebook:  http://www.facebook.com/experiencelifealoudInstagram:  http://www.instagram.com/experiencelifealoudLinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonwigand/(Editing and mixing by yours truly.   Go easy on me...I'll get better.  Transcription was done by automated AI software online.  There are errors.  Please forgive them.  I will continue to look at options for better transcriptions also. )Original music by Lauren Zettler

#009.  Please understand this…shouting won’t help me hear you better!  A discussion with Katherine Bouton.   Katherine is an advocate and educator for the deaf and hard of hearing. Her recent book is “Smart Hearing: Strategies, Skills, and Resources for Living Better with Hearing Loss” (October 2018).  She is also the author of “Shouting Won’t Help,”(2013), a memoir of losing her hearing in midlife and how it affected her, and of “Living Better with Hearing Loss” (2015).  Katherine’s books are available at <a href="http://Amazon.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Amazon.com</a> or at your favorite independent bookstore.Her 40-year career in journalism began at The New Yorker and concluded with 22 years at The New York Times. She traveled the world as a free-lance magazine writer as well.Katherine is a frequent speaker on hearing loss issues and speaks to both professional and hearing loss groups. She can be reached at katherinebouton@gmail.com.She is Vice President of the New York City Chapter of the Hearing Loss Association of America and was until recently a member of the National Board of Trustees of HLAA.     Author: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Katherine+Bouton+Kindle&amp;i=stripbooks&amp;ref=nb_sb_noss" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Amazon.com</a>      Blog: <a href="http://katherinebouton.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Smart Hearing</a><a href="http://hearinglossnyc.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Hearing Loss Association of America, NYC Chapter</a><a href="https://shop.nplusonemag.com/products/terminalia-by-daniel-menaker" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Terminalia</a>, poems by Daniel Menaker, order <a href="https://shop.nplusonemag.com/products/terminalia-by-daniel-menaker" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here. </a> If you would like to tell your story or have suggestions for topics or guest, email us at experiencelifealoud@gmail.com Visit us online at <a href="http://www.yourlifealoud.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.yourlifealoud.com</a> Connect with us on social media! Twitter:  <a href="http://twitter.com/livelifealoud" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/livelifealoud</a> Facebook:  <a href="http://www.facebook.com/experiencelifealoud" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/experiencelifealoud</a> Instagram:  <a href="http://www.instagram.com/experiencelifealoud" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.instagram.com/experiencelifealoud</a> LinkedIn:  <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonwigand/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonwigand/</a> (Editing and mixing by yours truly.   Go easy on me...I'll get better.  Transcription was done by automated AI software online.  There are errors.  Please forgive them.  I will continue to look at options for better transcriptions also. ) Original music by Lauren Zettler

Katherine Bouton - Shouting Won't Help!

Subscribe to Life Stories in iTunes  photo: Joyce Ravid In this episode of Life Stories, I chat with Katherine Bouton, who draws heavily upon her personal experience of hearing loss in Shouting Won’t Help, a consideration of the hearing loss problems that, at varying levels of severity, affect fifty million Americans. Since the book’s first publication in 2013, Bouton has become a vocal advocate on the subject of hearing loss, a development she explained had much to do with how her life changed while she was working on it:  “I evolved emotionally throughout the whole course of writing this book. I started to write the proposal in 2010… I worked all that year through on the proposal, which became… Initially, it was full of anger and self-pity and fury at everybody who didn’t understand what I was going through, what my hearing loss was like. As I came to the point where I was ready to distribute the proposal, my agent said, ‘This is really great, I think you have a selling proposal here, but you gotta find a happy ending for this.’ So I thought really hard about this. What kind of happy ending is there to hearing loss? But, actually, there is. I realized I had become much, much closer to my friends. I held everybody at bay for a long time because I couldn’t hear them, and I didn’t want to talk about it. Once I started to talk about it, my friendships just became much more intimate… My relationships with my family—my husband, my two now-grown children—had been very frayed by the fact that I couldn’t hear them and I was angry all the time. So as I put the book together, and over the next year and a half as I was writing it, I was also learning to hear better [with a cochlear implant]… So I was relearning to hear at the same time that I was learning to deal with my hearing loss, and I learned a lot about how many mistakes I had made and how bad it is for your own psyche and your physical and social and emotional well-being to deny hearing loss.”  Listen to Life Stories #71: Katherine Bouton (MP3 file); or download this file by right-clicking (Mac users, option-click). Or subscribe to Life Stories in iTunes, where you can catch up with earlier episodes and be alerted whenever a new one is released. (And if you are an iTunes subscriber, please consider rating and reviewing the podcast!)

<h5><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/life-stories/id650168716" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Subscribe to Life Stories in iTunes</a></h5> <a href="http://www.beatrice.com/life-stories/LifeStoriesKatherineBouton.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a> photo: Joyce Ravid In this episode of Life Stories, I chat with <a href="http://www.katherinebouton.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Katherine Bouton</a>, who draws heavily upon her personal experience of hearing loss in <a href="http://www.powells.com/partner/29017/biblio/9781250043566" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Shouting Won’t Help</a>, a consideration of the hearing loss problems that, at varying levels of severity, affect fifty million Americans. Since the book’s first publication in 2013, Bouton has become a vocal advocate on the subject of hearing loss, a development she explained had much to do with how her life changed while she was working on it: <blockquote> “I evolved emotionally throughout the whole course of writing this book. I started to write the proposal in 2010… I worked all that year through on the proposal, which became… Initially, it was full of anger and self-pity and fury at everybody who didn’t understand what I was going through, what my hearing loss was like. As I came to the point where I was ready to distribute the proposal, my agent said, ‘This is really great, I think you have a selling proposal here, but you gotta find a happy ending for this.’ So I thought really hard about this. What kind of happy ending is there to hearing loss? But, actually, there is. I realized I had become much, much closer to my friends. I held everybody at bay for a long time because I couldn’t hear them, and I didn’t want to talk about it. Once I started to talk about it, my friendships just became much more intimate… My relationships with my family—my husband, my two now-grown children—had been very frayed by the fact that I couldn’t hear them and I was angry all the time. So as I put the book together, and over the next year and a half as I was writing it, I was also learning to hear better [with a cochlear implant]… So I was relearning to hear at the same time that I was learning to deal with my hearing loss, and I learned a lot about how many mistakes I had made and how bad it is for your own psyche and your physical and social and emotional well-being to deny hearing loss.” </blockquote> Listen to <a href="http://www.beatrice.com/life-stories/LifeStoriesKatherineBouton.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Life Stories #71: Katherine Bouton</a> (MP3 file); or download this file by right-clicking (Mac users, option-click). Or <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/life-stories/id650168716" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">subscribe to Life Stories in iTunes</a>, where you can catch up with earlier episodes and be alerted whenever a new one is released. (And if you are an iTunes subscriber, please consider rating and reviewing the podcast!)

Life Stories #71: Katherine Bouton