Hear & Beyond

Hearing loss doesn’t come with an operating manual—until now.

If you have hearing loss, you already know that the conventional approach to treatment is focused on hearing-aid technology. What’s missing from this hearing care model is the big picture—a real-life illustration of how hearing loss, its emotions, and its barriers affect every corner of your life.

Now, hearing-health advocates, consultants, and speakers Shari Eberts and Gael Hannan offer a new skills-based approach to hearing loss that is centered not on hearing better, but on communicating better.

With honesty and humor, they share their own hearing loss journeys, and outline invaluable insights, strategies, and workarounds to help you engage with the world and be heard. You’ll gain tips for navigating all areas impacted by hearing loss, including relationships, work, technology; strategies for adopting a new, empowering mindset towards your hearing loss; and communication behaviors that can make almost any listening situation manageable.

Informed by the lived experiences of thousands of people living with hearing loss, and corroborated by hearing science, technological advances, and modern hearing-care principles, Hear and Beyond offers a new way forward to greater connection and engagement—whether you’re new to hearing loss or have been living with it for a long time.

About the Author

Gael Hannan is a hearing health advocate, writer, and speaker/performer who lives with profound hearing loss. She is the creator of the acclaimed one-woman show Unheard Voices and the humorous memoir The Way I Hear It: A Life with Hearing Loss. Shari Eberts is a hearing health advocate and writer, author, speaker, and documentary filmmaker living with progressive hearing loss. She is Founder of Living with Hearing Loss, a popular online blog and community for people living with hearing loss.