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Old February 10th 05, 06:09 PM
Melania
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Default 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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