Comments on: Mild hearing loss in 2 year old son? http://www.ihearclear.com/blog/mild-hearing-loss-in-2-year-old-son-2/ Thu, 17 May 2012 21:53:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Alayna S http://www.ihearclear.com/blog/mild-hearing-loss-in-2-year-old-son-2/comment-page-1/#comment-1828 Alayna S Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:11:18 +0000 http://www.ihearclear.com/blog/mild-hearing-loss-in-2-year-old-son-2/#comment-1828 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.<a href="http://www.secretfinance.com/offshore/offshore-trusts.htm"> Alayna S</a> 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

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