Re: A couple of quick questions

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In a message dated 10/14/04 5:30:19 PM Pacific Daylight Time,

janajama@... writes:

> Is your daughter's speech/language development on target for a two year

> old?

>

Before Clara got ear tubes at 19 months, she only said a couple words. Now

she says lots of words, but her articulation is quite poor. Most of what she

says can only be understood by her father and me. We think her speech is

delayed because she was born with a severe/profound loss in the left ear and on

top

of that had fluid in the right ear for some unknown reason. She has never

had an ear infection. I also have the same hearing loss in my left ear but I

developed language normally, even early according to my parents. And from what

I have read, most children with unilateral loss do not have a language delay.

Hopefully, she will catch up. She is starting to put two words together now,

the main problem is the articulation. We are moving next week from

California to Connecticut. Once we are there, we are going to look into speech

therapy. We have had some here, but not very much.

I wish we could just know one way or another but I guess we will just have to

continue to test her.

Thanks for replying everyone.

Cheryl

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In a message dated 10/14/04 5:30:19 PM Pacific Daylight Time,

janajama@... writes:

> Is your daughter's speech/language development on target for a two year

> old?

>

Before Clara got ear tubes at 19 months, she only said a couple words. Now

she says lots of words, but her articulation is quite poor. Most of what she

says can only be understood by her father and me. We think her speech is

delayed because she was born with a severe/profound loss in the left ear and on

top

of that had fluid in the right ear for some unknown reason. She has never

had an ear infection. I also have the same hearing loss in my left ear but I

developed language normally, even early according to my parents. And from what

I have read, most children with unilateral loss do not have a language delay.

Hopefully, she will catch up. She is starting to put two words together now,

the main problem is the articulation. We are moving next week from

California to Connecticut. Once we are there, we are going to look into speech

therapy. We have had some here, but not very much.

I wish we could just know one way or another but I guess we will just have to

continue to test her.

Thanks for replying everyone.

Cheryl

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But when I spoke to the ENT and the audiologist who

> has done most of her behavioral testing, they say that it's still possible

> she has a mild loss in the right ear. Why the contradiction?

My daughter, now 9, was also diagnosed at age 2 the same loss as yours (profound

left ear, normal right)....However, her speech did not develop well and she was

only beginning to put sentences together by age 3 1/2 so we had her

retested.....found a mild to severe sloping loss in the right ear beginning at

1500-2000hz.....

She put language together without those sounds, but once she was aided, she

really took off. I am curious too, why the ABR did not pick it up...Her speech

development seems to point to the fact that the loss was always there. Is your

daughter's speech/language development on target for a two year old?

I was just wondering if other

> parents here put ear plugs in or not.

We also had tubes put in at 18 months and always used the earplugs....since

there is a discrepency among doctors about plugging the ears or not, we decided

not to risk the chance of infection which could cause more hearing loss.