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(Oxford Monographs on Medical Genetics. No. 28.) Edited by Robert J. Gorlin, Helga V. Toriello, and M. Michael Cohen, Jr. 457 pp., illustrated. New York, Oxford University Press, 1995. $195. ISBN 0-19-506552-2

Hearing loss is perhaps the most prevalent of all the chronic diseases, with over 20 million Americans suffering from hearing impairment severe enough to affect their ability to communicate. The profound deafness that affects roughly 1 in 1000 newborns has obvious implications in terms of early-childhood education, parental adjustments to the use of manual communication, and the social isolation that may ensue. During the past decade there has been a tremendously exciting explosion of basic- and clinical-research findings in the area of mammalian hearing loss. This has resulted in part from increased attention to the importance of communication disorders in . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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