Mild hearing loss in 2 year old son?
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I have a son whose was diagnosed with mild hearing loss in both ears. And while I’m grateful that it was only MILD hearing loss, I can’t help worrying about him still.
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I have a son whose was diagnosed with mild hearing loss in both ears. And while I’m grateful that it was only MILD hearing loss, I can’t help worrying about him still.
I have heard people with hearing loss and they tend to speak… a little unusual. I want to know if that is the way he will speak once he gets hearing aids and speech therapy.
Thanks.
January 11th, 2010 at 7:11 pm
With a mild hearing loss speech probably won’t be affected. He may leave off plurals and verb endings sometimes, but once he learns to read he will know to put them in because he will have seen them in print. Usually it’s high frequency sounds that he won’t hear well. That’s s, th, p, h. The rest of the sounds should get through loud and clear. But you would need to ask the doctor to confirm that as every hearing loss is different. As it is mild he may not be prescribed aids, or if he is, they should bring the loss almost to normal.
Learning to read using ’sounding out’ may be challenging, but he’ll get there.
You may need to teach him the following:
to control the volume of his voice - tell him when he is shouting
to look at faces for lip pattern, expression and body language
to ask when he doesn’t understand and
to use his hearing to the max.
Play hearing games.
Turn him away and ask him to take a bunny jump away whenever he hears …( a word, sound, rhyme).
Play I-spy
Hide a radio and ask him to locate it
Someone should help you with all this, a social worker, preschool teacher of hearing impaired or doctor. And get him into a school or preschool asap. Alayna S