The author's personal experience with profound hearing loss and her roles as wife, mother, social worker and counsellor, suggest that the complexities involved might be explored more fruitfully by using an intensive and repetitive interviewing technique. This book explores and analyzes 150 interviews with hearing impaired people, including eleven couples in committed relationships where one partner is hearing and the other is hearing impaired. Detailed information was obtained about the way each couple managed conflict, decision making, household chores, communication, and perceived the...