Re: Re: Question?????

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My son, who now has an implant at age 15 months had both the BAER and ASSR.

From what I was told, the ASSR is a newer, more comprehensive test than the

BAER. He was 4 or 5 months old at the time and could take it while he was

napping. He did not have to be sedated for either that or the BAER test.

Also, with my 2 1/2 year old daughter who is severely hard of hearing, when

she was born and diagnosed at age 3 months of age, I too decided to wait until

we moved to another state (we were just in the process of it) and waiting for

our new insurance to come through. She got her first hearing aids at 7 months

of age. How uninformed I was! I was new to this hearing loss thing and it was

never emphasized how CRUCIAL it is to have your child aided immediately!!!! It

makes all the difference in their language and speech skills. Yes, every month

counts significantly according to every research article that has been printed.

I am sorry I waited, though it was only four months. I did not know. So

please, have your child aided immediately, even if it means being sedated an

additional time or two (by the way, my daughter has been sedated and/or

anesthetized 3 times for various tests like BAER, CT scans, etc.). The risk of

being unaided far outweights the risks of sedation

in the long run. Anyways, not trying to lecture. I just didn't know about any

of this myself when I was new.

--Kim (mother of one CI user and 2 hearing aid users)

Emylie emyliemarie@...> wrote:

Marie,

I was just wondering why isn't your son in hearing aids? You said

you know he has a moderate hearing loss already but you are waiting

for more tests before he is aided?

I am not sure about the ASSR or BAER so you may be going through

something totally different than us, but our son Donovan (8 mos) has

been wearing hearing aids since he was 2 months and we have yet to

have CT. The ABR showed his moderate hearing loss and we got the

hearing aids based on that. His doctor wanted us to get and CT to

verify his cochlea is not damaged/deformed in case we ever want to

go the route of a CI but since the hearing aids are doing the trick

right now, we all agreed to hold off (since I didn't really want him

to be sedated at such a young age).

Anyways I know this doesn't answer your questions or frustrations.

But thought you may want to know that your son should be able to get

his hearing aids while you are waiting for the additional tests.

Emylie

Mother to Kaiden, 6 & hearing, and Donovan, 8 mos Moderate HL

>

> Ok, so I know I havent written since my intro, but hey, I am new

and I

> havent had much to say.

> So here is my question, my son Logan is almost 6 months and we

have

> been waiting for approval from the military insurance for a ct

scan and

> a baer at the same time so that they only have to sedate him once,

but

> we finally got the call today to set the appointment up and they

are

> telling me that they want to give Logan a new type of test, ASSR.

I

> did a little research and they usually only use this one in severe

to

> profound loss, but Logan has a moderate loss. With the ASSR they

would

> have to do it at another time so he would have to get sedated

twice.

> So, why do they want to give him the ASSR instead of the BAER?

> Logan hasnt been aided yet, so depending on how long it will take

to

> get an appointment to do this ASSR and the ct scan it could be a

couple

> of months.

> GRRRRRR, so frusterating. Its all this waiting for authorization

for

> the insurance and now they want to change the type of test they

want to

> give him.

> I know it will all come together in time, but I am just

frusterated,

> thank you for listening. And any advise would be great!

>