Living with Hearing Loss and Deafness Samantha Baines

Living with Hearing Loss and Deafness: A guide to owning it and loving it. By Samantha Baines

Paperback published by headline 30th January 2025

ISBN 9781035425112

This is all you need to know book and hearing loss and deafness, including facts, experiences and words of wisdom from experts at the RNID, audiologists, deaf activists and people who use and teach sign language. Having been on their own deaf journey, Samantha Baines has met wonderful, interesting, courageous people of all ages who also happen to be deaf. In this book, alongside the experts, she weaves together their insights and advice and, importantly, teaches those of us who aren’t deaf, what it is like for those who are.

MY REVIEW

This book Living With Hearing Loss And Deafness by Samantha Baines is like a bible with all you need to know and understand about people with hearing loss. This book is packed with information in why and how some people are deaf, and what will take place by an audiologist. People talk openly about their hearing loss, sign language. There’s plenty of advice for anyone who is struggling with hearing loss. People on instagram may not know this but yes I have hearing loss too. When I put my hearing aids in for the very first time, I couldn’t believe it I could hear the birds tweet, the kettle warming up. It sounded like people were talking loudly. When I went out to a restaurant I could hear the loud music, from the speakers in a restaurant, that I couldn’t hear before. Wearing hearing aids is nothing to be worried about or ashamed about, remember there are lots of famous actors who wear hearing aids too. For any of you that aren’t deaf this book will help you understand what it’s like for people that are deaf. I recommend reading this book even if you don’t have to wear hearing aids.

About Samantha Baines

Samantha Baines is an award winning author, award winning comedian, award winning actress but only an award nominated broadcaster (hey you can’t have everything). Samantha wears a hearing aid, is an ambassador for the Royal National Institute for the Deaf and her books feature deaf protagonists with hearing aids.

Her debut fiction title for children ‘Harriet Versus the Galaxy’ won the Coventry Inspiration Book Award 2021 and was listed in the Book Trust’s Great Books Guide 2020 and the Best Children’s Books of the Year in the Independent.

Her next book The Night the Moon Went Out will be published in August 2021 by Bloomsbury.

Samantha has appeared as an actress is shows like Netflix’s The Crown, Call the Midwife, Silent Witness and CBBC’s So Awkward. She has performed sell-out comedy tours and is a regular on BBC Radio. Samantha’s podcast The Divorce Club was nominated for Moment of the Year in the British Podcast Awards 2021 and is a number one podcast on iTunes. https://www.instagram.com/samanthabaines