Guest guest Posted May 12, 2001 Report Share Posted May 12, 2001 Deb - You have to fight this. It is assinine and ridiculous etc. Send me your address and I'll get you the Carol Flexer article right out! IT talks about a minimal loss but your child's loss is even worse. Should be some good ammunition. MOST of the grammatical meaning in English is found in the highest frequency sounds. When a child can't hear the t, s, th, etc they can't distinguish tenses of verbs, plurals or possessives. Another idea is to have your audiologist test your little guy in quiet and in noise to " prove " objectively that an FM is needed. Does he wear hearing aids? From his audiogram he's missing a lot of stuff. You could plot it out on the articulation index (dot audiogram) and that gives you a number - he's missing 47% of spoken material etc. Let us know how we can help. Your son does need the FM, you are right so you need to fight for it. And as for educationally significant - ask them why your child had to go to Kind. twice - mine did too!! Once without the FM and once with it and it was like it was two different kids. in GA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 13, 2001 Report Share Posted May 13, 2001 , thanks for your reply. The more I think about this, the more I realize I have to fight for what Zach needs. It's hard to be objective when it's your own child and you have to deal with it every day. This group has helped me more than I could have ever imagined!! Sometimes I also feel guilty even asking for help with Zach, because his loss almost seems insignificant compared to others on this listserve. But my instincts are telling me it will still make a difference in his education, so I can't just sit back and let it happen. Zach's doesn't wear aids because all of the audis who have evaluated me have told me he's not really a candidate because of his pattern of loss. I like the idea of testing his hearing in quiet and with background noise, but I'm not sure if the audi for our school district is capable of being objective. She seems to already be convinced that his hearing loss isn't educationally significant. I also like the idea of the articulation index (dot audiogram). Is that something I can plot with his last audiogram, or does an audi have to do it? I would love the article you mentioned and I'll send you my address offline. Thanks for all of your help!! Deb > Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 08:00:30 -0400 > > Subject: Reply to Deb > > Deb - You have to fight this. It is assinine and ridiculous etc. Send me > your address and I'll get you the Carol Flexer article right out! IT talks > about a minimal loss but your child's loss is even worse. Should be some > good ammunition. MOST of the grammatical meaning in English is found in the > highest frequency sounds. When a child can't hear the t, s, th, etc they > can't distinguish tenses of verbs, plurals or possessives. Another idea is > to have your audiologist test your little guy in quiet and in noise to > " prove " objectively that an FM is needed. Does he wear hearing aids? From > his audiogram he's missing a lot of stuff. You could plot it out on the > articulation index (dot audiogram) and that gives you a number - he's > missing 47% of spoken material etc. Let us know how we can help. Your son > does need the FM, you are right so you need to fight for it. And as for > educationally significant - ask them why your child had to go to Kind. > twice - mine did too!! Once without the FM and once with it and it was like > it was two different kids. in GA > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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