Re: Response to a Child with Hearing Aids that won't stay in/I had the same exp.

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Bubba,

I went excatly through the same thing as the child did. Although, at that

time, I didn't have the luxury of digitals back then. I just brought mine a few

months agao for a total of $5,000.00. Actually, I am rather surprised the

dealer or the audiologist didn't recommend the digitals. Also, the child may

refuse

to wear them, because she may see other children not wearing them and she

realizes that she is much different. I know that for a fact, because I was

supposed to start wearing mine when I was three and I absolutely flat out

refused.

They used to put them in my ear and I threw them across the floor. I understand

the reason why they wanted to put the aids in early so the child doesn't lose

much of his or her langauge. But, my parents didn't force it on me. They

waited until I was 4 and then I wore them and I learned to talk in a year when

most kids learned to talk in about 1-3 years. So, they knew the aid worked. Keep

in mind, a child may refuse to wear them, because they know they are going to

be different and they fear of being octarized. I did get octarized when I was

much older and they did make fun of my speech. I guess some people could tell

that I was hearing impaired by the way I talked, but I don't hear it. The only

thing I have great difficulty is with my " S " and the reason for that

difficulty is because " S " are high pitch. I have a sensory neural loss, which

means,

all of my losses are in the nerves and there is no way I can have it restored

or fixed. I am glad the child is content with her hearing aids. At first for

me, some sounds drove me absolutely crazy like birds chirping (which i cannot

stand hearing), dogs barking, cats meowing, and other type of sounds) with my

old aids, it just picked up background noises, which is why I have difficulty on

the phone, because I can't hear the person talking while I hear a bunch of

noises in the back. With my digitals, it is used mostly for speech reconigation.

I tell you, if anyone who is hearing impaired and needs new aids, I highly

recommend the digital. What a difference! The best part about the digitals, you

do not have to get a whole another set when your hearing changes, all they

have to do is have you tested and the dealer just reprograms your new changes.

In

other words, if your right ear deterotiates, then he will adjust the volume

and sound on the computer and reprograms it on the digital. Another thing that

drives me absoutely crazy is when people sigh or huffing and puffing.

I do know what the poor child is going through or what she did went through.

Those who do not have hearing losses have no clue to what we all go through at

all. It's too bad, those who are in the hearing world for one day try to

experience that and then you would completely understand what we go through. A

lot

of people don't and if you tell a person on the phone you are hearing

impaired, instantly the attidude changes. They become impatient and then they

don't

want to bother, because they already know you don't understand them. I hate

phones to begin with and I hardly ever use mine. Maybe someday we could get rid

of all phones ( I cannot wait for that to happen) and just rely on the computer

to communicate with all people). But everybody seems to love the phones so

much and cannot part with it at all. It sure would be nice to get rid of phones

though.

Ruth

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