(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 chronicdiseases, with over 20 million Americans suffering from hearingimpairment severe enough to affect their ability to communicate.The profound deafness that affects roughly 1 in 1000 newbornshas obvious implications in terms of early-childhood education,parental adjustments to the use of manual communication, andthe social isolation that may ensue. During the past decadethere has been a tremendously exciting explosion of basic- andclinical-research findings in the area of mammalian hearingloss. This has resulted in part from increased attention tothe importance of communication disorders in . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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