Self Help for Hard of Hearing People, Inc. (SHHH) and our members are catalysts that make mainstream society more accessible to people who are hard of hearing.  We strive to improve the quality of hard of hearing people's lives through education, advocacy and self-help.

Welcome to the website of the Greater Boston Chapter.  Please use the links at the left to learn more about us.

 

NEXT MEETING MONDAY APRIL 11, 2005  7PM

Northeastern University Behrakis Health Science Center Room 10

 

"You, Me, and Hearing Loss Makes Three: Changes and Challenges in Relationships"

Michael Harvey PhD

Dr. Harvey provides training and consultation on deafness/hearing loss, vicarious trauma and mental health issues.  In addition to a private practice in Framingham, Mass., he is an adjunct faculty at Boston University and a consultant faculty at Pennsylvania College of Optometry, School of Audiology, where he teaches on-line courses relating to the psychosocial aspects of hearing loss.  Dr. Harvey writes a regular column, ?What?s On Your Mind??, in Hearing Loss, the journal for Self Help for the Hard-of-Hearing.

 In addition to over 40 articles, his publications include The Odyssey of Hearing Loss: Tales of Triumph,;  Psychotherapy with Deaf and Hard of Hearing Persons: A Systemic Model, and a co-edited book entitled Culturally Affirmative Psychotherapy with Deaf Persons.  His most recent book is Listen with the Heart: Relationships and Hearing Loss.

Dr. Harvey is Co-Director of a private, non-profit organization, Dialogue Toward Change, dedicated to providing research, training and consultation services to alleviate the potentially negative impact of witnessing oppression