What should I expect?

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has his annual visit with his otologist tomorrow, and the TransEAR

device is a topic of discussion (the new " hearing aid " type device designed

for people with Profound Unilateral Loss).

Assuming that is approved as meeting the criteria for the device (and

the only thing that I can see that would keep him from being approved would

be if his ear is too small to support the system), I have no idea of what

would happen next. I know that ear molds are involved, and that the

audiologist at our otologist's office would be the dispensing audiologist -

but past that, I'm completely lost.

So - could those of you who have been down the BTE aid road ahead of me give

me some idea of what to expect? I'm guessing that multiple doctor office

visits are involved, but am I on the right track? What usually happens at

these visits?

Also - have any of you not been able, or chosen not to, " aid " your children

until they were 6 or 7 or 8 (or so)? My husband's main concern is that we

need to get 's buy-in on this, and I honestly haven't brought it up as

an option to him because we don't know if he's a true candidate (I don't

want to get his hopes up and then have the doctor say that this won't work

for him). If you did wait until this age, for whatever reason, what was

your experience like with the whole process?

Thanks so much.

Kris

Mom to (7 y.o., Profound Unilateral SNL) and Ethan (6 y.o., No Hearing

Loss)