Guest guest Posted June 23, 2004 Report Share Posted June 23, 2004 Hello all, I just joined the site. My 4 yr old, Devlin is HOH with Mild hearing loss in both ears, high frequency. My younger son, Aidan, is hearing. I have just begun ready through the posts. However, I do have questions. I have already made the secision to do some home- schooling for my son, along side his regular schooling that starts in September. He is going into JK. Is it hard the first little while? Dev was diagnosed just last week. He does not have hearing aids at this time. We do not even know if he will need them (though I think he does). He is also in speech therepy due to his speech being so behind compared to a child his age. Dev is already shy, and doesn't like to be too far away from me in an environment he is not used to. Last week we went to the kindergarden class to visit, and he wouldn't even go in at 1st. I had to go in with him before he would step inside the door! Any suggestions would be great. Even with potty training (1yr of training, and we are almost done - finally). Speak to all soon! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 23, 2004 Report Share Posted June 23, 2004 , It is not uncommon for a child with even a mild hearing loss to be shy and not want to socialize. It is very possable he can't understand much of what is being said and so he may feel left out and scared. My son has a mild hearing loss of around 30 dB bilaterally but he also recently tested at 40 dB in the low frequencies recently, the audiologist ignored this saying he had normal hearing. Most consider normal hearing in a child who is learning language 15 dB but for some reason all the places I go they want to say that 30 dB is boarderline normal and they wouldn't aid unless the low frequency hearing is more than 25 dB, which his is but they still argue with me. I would seriously suggest hearing aids, but more so an FM system to help with speech. Currently my son won't wear the FM so we purchased a soundfield system to amplify the speakers voice. Hi! New here... Hello all, I just joined the site. My 4 yr old, Devlin is HOH with Mild hearing loss in both ears, high frequency. My younger son, Aidan, is hearing. I have just begun ready through the posts. However, I do have questions. I have already made the secision to do some home- schooling for my son, along side his regular schooling that starts in September. He is going into JK. Is it hard the first little while? Dev was diagnosed just last week. He does not have hearing aids at this time. We do not even know if he will need them (though I think he does). He is also in speech therepy due to his speech being so behind compared to a child his age. Dev is already shy, and doesn't like to be too far away from me in an environment he is not used to. Last week we went to the kindergarden class to visit, and he wouldn't even go in at 1st. I had to go in with him before he would step inside the door! Any suggestions would be great. Even with potty training (1yr of training, and we are almost done - finally). Speak to all soon! All messages posted to this list are private and confidential. Each post is the intellectual property of the author and therefore subject to copyright restrictions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 23, 2004 Report Share Posted June 23, 2004 , It is not uncommon for a child with even a mild hearing loss to be shy and not want to socialize. It is very possable he can't understand much of what is being said and so he may feel left out and scared. My son has a mild hearing loss of around 30 dB bilaterally but he also recently tested at 40 dB in the low frequencies recently, the audiologist ignored this saying he had normal hearing. Most consider normal hearing in a child who is learning language 15 dB but for some reason all the places I go they want to say that 30 dB is boarderline normal and they wouldn't aid unless the low frequency hearing is more than 25 dB, which his is but they still argue with me. I would seriously suggest hearing aids, but more so an FM system to help with speech. Currently my son won't wear the FM so we purchased a soundfield system to amplify the speakers voice. Hi! New here... Hello all, I just joined the site. My 4 yr old, Devlin is HOH with Mild hearing loss in both ears, high frequency. My younger son, Aidan, is hearing. I have just begun ready through the posts. However, I do have questions. I have already made the secision to do some home- schooling for my son, along side his regular schooling that starts in September. He is going into JK. Is it hard the first little while? Dev was diagnosed just last week. He does not have hearing aids at this time. We do not even know if he will need them (though I think he does). He is also in speech therepy due to his speech being so behind compared to a child his age. Dev is already shy, and doesn't like to be too far away from me in an environment he is not used to. Last week we went to the kindergarden class to visit, and he wouldn't even go in at 1st. I had to go in with him before he would step inside the door! Any suggestions would be great. Even with potty training (1yr of training, and we are almost done - finally). Speak to all soon! All messages posted to this list are private and confidential. Each post is the intellectual property of the author and therefore subject to copyright restrictions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 23, 2004 Report Share Posted June 23, 2004 , It is not uncommon for a child with even a mild hearing loss to be shy and not want to socialize. It is very possable he can't understand much of what is being said and so he may feel left out and scared. My son has a mild hearing loss of around 30 dB bilaterally but he also recently tested at 40 dB in the low frequencies recently, the audiologist ignored this saying he had normal hearing. Most consider normal hearing in a child who is learning language 15 dB but for some reason all the places I go they want to say that 30 dB is boarderline normal and they wouldn't aid unless the low frequency hearing is more than 25 dB, which his is but they still argue with me. I would seriously suggest hearing aids, but more so an FM system to help with speech. Currently my son won't wear the FM so we purchased a soundfield system to amplify the speakers voice. Hi! New here... Hello all, I just joined the site. My 4 yr old, Devlin is HOH with Mild hearing loss in both ears, high frequency. My younger son, Aidan, is hearing. I have just begun ready through the posts. However, I do have questions. I have already made the secision to do some home- schooling for my son, along side his regular schooling that starts in September. He is going into JK. Is it hard the first little while? Dev was diagnosed just last week. He does not have hearing aids at this time. We do not even know if he will need them (though I think he does). He is also in speech therepy due to his speech being so behind compared to a child his age. Dev is already shy, and doesn't like to be too far away from me in an environment he is not used to. Last week we went to the kindergarden class to visit, and he wouldn't even go in at 1st. I had to go in with him before he would step inside the door! Any suggestions would be great. Even with potty training (1yr of training, and we are almost done - finally). Speak to all soon! All messages posted to this list are private and confidential. Each post is the intellectual property of the author and therefore subject to copyright restrictions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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