Guest guest Posted January 30, 2006 Report Posted January 30, 2006 You emphasize the " kool " part of the fm. Introduce it like a one-way walkie talkie. Show him that he will have abilities that other kids think are kool. He can hear through walls, alert them if the teachers coming, can hear what she's doing in the other room, etc. I think there were some books out about Spy Kids or something like that who had hearing loss that may include some assistive technology. Show him that he can act like a reporter when using it. Don't expect him to be excited. If it is introduced to the class properly, the kids will think it's kool and then he'll be the only one happy to have it. As far as the unilateral loss, 90 db is about right. My son got his first hearing aid at around age 7 and he immediately loved the bicross. It did not occlude his hearing ear because the audiologist used an open " shell " style vented mold that allowed alot of the sound to get through. I do know parents of children with losses over 100 db who wear h/a's and get some residual hearing out of those. However,with a really good hear, anything that he'll hear in that ear will probably be drowned out and unintelligible. Quote
Guest guest Posted January 31, 2006 Report Posted January 31, 2006 My younger son, Sam (who is 11 years old) has a profound loss - his SRTs are 100 db - and he wears hearing aids and isn't implanted. He's done very well in school and also socially. He also wears an FM at school and so far he's been fine with it. I really think it depends on the child and the type of hearing loss as to what's aidable and what's not. That being said, as I see what Tom is now hearing (and Sam's not) we're contemplating an implant for him. As I say - he's done well (really well) with his aids so it's a conundrum... We're just starting to investigate it. Barbara EskiLvr wrote: >Good evening, all. > > > >I feel so silly for asking this, but I've dug (and dug and sifted and dug >some more) as far as I can on the Internet, and I can't seem to figure out >the answer. > > > >Does anyone know what the generally accepted threshold is for hearing loss >to be considered to be " non-aidable " ? 's otologist told us that since >he tests, at best, to have 90 db (or greater) of loss in his left ear that a >traditional hearing aid is not an option. He doesn't want to use a CROS >system because it would occlude his " good " ear (which apparently rates > " above average " ) - so the only aid option available to us at this point >would be a BAHA. Seeing as how that's still relatively new technology for >single-sided deafness, we've decided to hold off on that option for now. >I've tried and tried to find sources for unilateral deafness on the web, but >there's just not a whole lot out there (and what *is* there tends to repeat >what I've already read on other sites - argh!). I guess I'm just confused >because I do know that there are children out there who are considered to be >profoundly deaf who *do* wear aids.? > > > >Also - we're having a meeting to amend 's IEP next week to include >assistive-hearing devices (such as the FM system we want). We're trying to >introduce to the concept that he may need to wear equipment to make >this work - and he's wavering between thinking this would be great and not >wanting to have anything to do with the idea at all. He's a rather. >willful. 7 year old boy - does anyone have any ideas of what we can (or >shouldn't) do to make this a positive for him? (I did already find the >Phonak site with its demo of what the difference in sound is with and >without an FM system in place.) > > > >Thanks so much. > > > >Kris > > > >Mom to (Profound SNL, Left Ear) and Ethan (Selective Hearing!) > > > > > Quote
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