Re: Any Ideas?

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In a message dated 12/31/04 10:58:30 AM Eastern Standard Time, writes:

> She said that " only one good ear is needed for

> language development " .... is that true?

>

Usually. I myself have a severe/profound loss in my left ear and I

developed language normally. The hearing loss wasn't discovered until I was

five

because the school districts screened all the Kindergarteners. It's pretty

common

for a hearing loss in one ear to be discovered quite late because they seem

to hear most things. From what I have read, most kids with only one normal ear

pick up language very well, though some do need speech therapy.

My two year old daughter also has a severe/profound loss in her left ear and

she does have speech delays. We think though that the delay was caused by

fluid in her other ear. We finally got her tubes last June and her language has

taken off after that. She is still hard to understand, but it's coming along.

The tubes didn't help the left ear as that loss is sensori-neuro, but it

gave her right ear normal hearing according to the ABR we did after the test.

writes:

Why is it if he has supposedly no ear infections (he

has been checked a few times as he had sever chest

colds a few times earlier in the fall) and yet he has

all this fluid buildup??

As others have said, fluid can build up with no infections. My daughter

never had any ear infections as far as we know, but always had " flat

tympanograms "

indicating that the ear drums weren't moving due to the presence of fluid.

We waited so long to put in tubes because our ENT said that her ear canals were

too small and he couldn't even look inside to verify if there was any fluid.

In retrospect, I wish we would have pushed for tubes sooner, I'm not aware of

any other reason for a flat typmanogram other than fluid build-up.

Since Ricky's ABR was inconclusive, I would definitely push for another one

to be done. First though, I would ask the ENT if Ricky should get tubes first.

Then the fluid would be gone and it wouldn't confuse the results of the ABR.

Just a thought.

Good luck to you. I hope you get answers soon. It took us a while to figure

out what was going on with our daughter too.

Cheryl

[Guest guest]

> She said that " only one good ear is needed for

> language development " .... is that true?

,

My daughter was born with a profound loss in her left ear, She had

normal hearing in her other ear until; she was 7. Luckily she developed totally

normal speech and language and never needed speech therapy.

Hope this is helpful.