Find Out If Your Child Needs A Hearing Aid

Finding the right hearing aid might be a challenge when your child is young

. They are helping children at younger and younger ages, but it is difficult to know how accurate a hearing aid is until the child is able to talk. There is a lot of trial and error with this when children are young.

As a parent, it is important for you to notice as your child develops whether they are responding to sounds. It is easy for parents to miss that their child may be deaf because children quickly compensate for their losses. They might respond to the vibration of you walking across the room rather than you talking to them as you walk across the room. They may be able to hear some frequencies, so when they respond to high pitched beeps or sounds like this it may make you think your child's ability to hear is just fine. It sounds a little frightening for parents, but actually what you should do is make sure your child gets an ABR test. It is routinely done in hospitals when babies are born. If your baby did not have this done then it is something to look into. Some children do not pass these exams, but end up having a normal ability to hear. When they do not pass, a second test is done. Catching this early is important.

It is so important to catch this early because speech and language have so much to do with the ability of an individual to hear. If you do not begin early, you will likely catch it around the age of one or two when they definitely should be making words.

It is hard not to be afraid if you suspect your child is struggling to hear. Action is the key, however. You need to call your doctor to have him refer you to an ENT and Audiologist. The ENT will examine the ear to make sure it is not filled with wax or full of fluid. They will take care of the wax if it is present, and they might give a decongestant of some kind for the fluid. They might also suggest tubes for your child's ears if there is fluid. An audiologist will then do a series of tests to see how your child responds.

Depending on the results of the test, your child may or may not need a hearing aid in one or both of his or her ears. Some kids do not benefit from them. If they do not, then they may benefit from cochlear implants.

Most likely this will be a last resort. There is so much technology today that, unless your child has a complete loss of the auditory nerve, then most likely they will be able to hear something with either aids or cochlear implants.

by: Anna Woodward

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