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audiologist visit - kinda long feel-good story
So, I took ds to the audiologist yesterday for a follow-up (he has
bilateral microtia, which is small ears, and left-side atresia, which is the absence of an ear canal), since at his annual visit a month ago one of the testing machines wasn't working. His results from the behavioural tests at that session were okay but not great, and I felt it was more that he was bored with the testing system than a true reflection of his hearing ability. He also had a test where the audiologist asked him to point to images on a picture board, and there were some he didn't know (hot dog, good for me! and cowboy, for instance). Again, I felt this compromised his results, and told the audiologist this. We got a different audiologist than usual this time (afternoon session instead of our normal am), and she went through a series of picture cards with me, so I could preselect things I knew he would recognize. She also used a headset for him, instead of playing sounds over the speakers. It went much better. Then she did a test with him that they normally start when kids are 2.5 yo (ds is just about 25 mo), which she figured would be more interesting than the ones they'd done last time. Basically, she taught him to wait for a sound on the headset, and when it played to stick a piece of plastic food through a hole in the lid of a bucket - the lid was done up to look like Franklin the Turtle with his mouth open, and the game was called Feed Franklin. Ds *loved* it. He was very playful and interactive with her, holding the piece of food cms from the "mouth" and grinning mischieviously at her until the sound came and he dropped it in. The outcome of all this was that she got normal hearing results on his right side (hitherto we'd been told normal-borderline normal) and surprisingly, she got a 40-50 dB threshold for some frequencies in his left ear, instead of the 60 dB threshold that had been established before. Part of this is because using the headset, she was able to play sounds only to one ear at a time, and really pinpoint responses. (The ENT specialist advised us to stick a finger really firmly in our left ear canal to get a sense of what things likely sound like to him). Ds was so patient, engaged, and good for the whole hour+ we were testing, in spite of the fact that his nap was cut short in order to go there - I was thrilled. And she confirmed what we've been told by specialists all along, that his unilateral hearing loss shouldn't be accounting for his speech delay, and he's probably just learning to speak on his own time. I have a feeling once the baby shows up and he stops being the centre of attention, the words will come a little faster . . . anyway, it was a great session and I just wanted to share! Melania Mom to Joffre (Jan 11, 2003) and #2 (edd May 21, 2005) |
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