Re: re-programing digital hearing aids

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In a message dated 5/11/2004 9:25:17 AM Eastern Daylight Time,

Mickeyand@... writes:

Hi, I have a quick question. My daughter who has moderate hearing loss had a

hearing test yesterday. 6 month ago she had a drop in hearing 20db in left

ear

and 10db in right ear. So we are closely monitoring her ever 3 months. When

this drop occurred they did not reprogram her hearing aids because they said

she is receiving good reception at those levels? But at yesterdays test she

only

had a 5 db difference in each ear (which could be tester or teste). They want

to reprogram some tones. My question or concern or maybe my lack of

experience. How do they determine when to program the aids and wouldn't too

much volume

damage more hearing? I am scheduled to go in June because not to many places

know how to program digital hearing aid or do not have the program to do

this.

That's another concern, a lot of places do not know how to program the aids

and I am afraid my daughter can be there practice person and hurt my daughter

hearing in the long run. She is 9 yrs old and it is still hard for her to

distinguish what is good in sounds and she totally relies on the audiologist

and

me. Sorry so long...

Thanks

My guess (and I am not an audiologist, just a mom) is that they chose not to

change the settings when that drop occurred just in case it was due to some

temporary thing (fluid in the ears). Having done another test they can see that

there is a significant drop and it has not rebounded, so they're choosing to

re-set the levels now.

However, this is just my guess because we've had siomilar things happen with

our son Ian. His loss would steadily drop a few dbs each time we went to the

audi. Then on one occassion he suddenly lost 20 dbs in his " good ear. " They

didn't see any fluid, but thought it might be partially doe to congestion and

his

allergies. We went back a couple months later and his hearing was almost the

same, the loss was real not transient. Since then he has had a marked drop

every now and then. We don't know why, it just happens.

Best -- jill.

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In a message dated 5/11/2004 9:25:17 AM Eastern Daylight Time,

Mickeyand@... writes:

Hi, I have a quick question. My daughter who has moderate hearing loss had a

hearing test yesterday. 6 month ago she had a drop in hearing 20db in left

ear

and 10db in right ear. So we are closely monitoring her ever 3 months. When

this drop occurred they did not reprogram her hearing aids because they said

she is receiving good reception at those levels? But at yesterdays test she

only

had a 5 db difference in each ear (which could be tester or teste). They want

to reprogram some tones. My question or concern or maybe my lack of

experience. How do they determine when to program the aids and wouldn't too

much volume

damage more hearing? I am scheduled to go in June because not to many places

know how to program digital hearing aid or do not have the program to do

this.

That's another concern, a lot of places do not know how to program the aids

and I am afraid my daughter can be there practice person and hurt my daughter

hearing in the long run. She is 9 yrs old and it is still hard for her to

distinguish what is good in sounds and she totally relies on the audiologist

and

me. Sorry so long...

Thanks

My guess (and I am not an audiologist, just a mom) is that they chose not to

change the settings when that drop occurred just in case it was due to some

temporary thing (fluid in the ears). Having done another test they can see that

there is a significant drop and it has not rebounded, so they're choosing to

re-set the levels now.

However, this is just my guess because we've had siomilar things happen with

our son Ian. His loss would steadily drop a few dbs each time we went to the

audi. Then on one occassion he suddenly lost 20 dbs in his " good ear. " They

didn't see any fluid, but thought it might be partially doe to congestion and

his

allergies. We went back a couple months later and his hearing was almost the

same, the loss was real not transient. Since then he has had a marked drop

every now and then. We don't know why, it just happens.

Best -- jill.

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I was wondering what kind of hearing loss she has. If it is SN or AN then it is

likely that the clearity of sound is fluctuating and that she isn't responding

sometimes and is others. Does she seem to have good days and bad days? My son

currently is using visual reinforcement audiogram but we are working with him on

the play audiogram because visual reinforcement is very behavioral and requires

a lot of interpretation, which leaves a large margin for error. I'm sure your

daughter being 9 doesn't use visual reinforcement, but I'm wondering if you are

getting mixed reports if it wouldn't be a good idea to have an ABR. This might

clearify things a bit for you. This doesn't rely on interpretation or her

behavior to get a good reading. She does have to lay still and quiet while the

test is being done. They often put babies to sleep. This is generally used for

those with AN or babies or children who don't cooperate like my son, but can be

used when you can't get a clear straight answer from the audiograms. I have one

more question and I promise that is it, is your audiologist a pediatric

audiologist? If not that may be the problem. If they are not used to dealing

with children they can often misinterpret the results, or not able to test them

properly.

re-programing digital hearing aids

Hi, I have a quick question. My daughter who has moderate hearing loss had a

hearing test yesterday. 6 month ago she had a drop in hearing 20db in left ear

and 10db in right ear. So we are closely monitoring her ever 3 months. When

this drop occurred they did not reprogram her hearing aids because they said

she is receiving good reception at those levels? But at yesterdays test she

only

had a 5 db difference in each ear (which could be tester or teste). They want

to reprogram some tones. My question or concern or maybe my lack of

experience. How do they determine when to program the aids and wouldn't too

much volume

damage more hearing? I am scheduled to go in June because not to many places

know how to program digital hearing aid or do not have the program to do this.

That's another concern, a lot of places do not know how to program the aids

and I am afraid my daughter can be there practice person and hurt my daughter

hearing in the long run. She is 9 yrs old and it is still hard for her to

distinguish what is good in sounds and she totally relies on the audiologist

and

me. Sorry so long...

Thanks

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In a message dated 5/11/2004 8:35:53 AM Pacific Standard Time,

enriquez16@... writes:

I have one more question and I promise that is it, is your audiologist a

pediatric audiologist?

Yes, They specialize in children only. This is a school based audiologist.

Meaning they check any and or all children that might have a hearing problems. I

have gone to other audiologist to confirm there results and they are on the

money. Many ENT highly recommend and rely on there expertise. So I am pretty

conformable with there testing. But I am still a little concerned on programing.

Her hearing aids are Oticon digi focus II. Also, what is a ABR exactly?

[Guest guest]

Well that is good that you are very comfortable in their expertise. I can

understand your being nervous though. An ABR is an Auditory Brain Response, or

another word for it is BAER which is a Brain Auditory Evoked Response. This is

how they test very young children who can't do behavioral testing or children

who behaviorally or developementally can't do booth testing. Also there are

some conditions such as Auditory neuropathy where although the person hears the

sound it is so delayed that the sound doesn't register on the ABR. That can

cause a serious problem with the clearity of sound. Those children usually have

anywhere from some degree of difficulty hearing to not being able to understand

anything that is heard, and so sound basically means nothing to them. Anyway

the audiogram is not a relyable test for most of these people so ABR's are

performed.

Re: re-programing digital hearing aids

In a message dated 5/11/2004 8:35:53 AM Pacific Standard Time,

enriquez16@... writes:

I have one more question and I promise that is it, is your audiologist a

pediatric audiologist?

Yes, They specialize in children only. This is a school based audiologist.

Meaning they check any and or all children that might have a hearing problems.

I

have gone to other audiologist to confirm there results and they are on the

money. Many ENT highly recommend and rely on there expertise. So I am pretty

conformable with there testing. But I am still a little concerned on

programing.

Her hearing aids are Oticon digi focus II. Also, what is a ABR exactly?