Hearing issue or ignoring parent?

[Anonymous]

It could also be auditory processing, where she technically hears you fine but can't quite make sense of what she is hearing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Definitely ask the pediatrician, but at age 3+, you can have her assessed by your local school system, just to see if this is a hearing issue or something else. My son was assessed for speech issues and they checked his hearing as part of the process. (His hearing was fine.)

I would do both because in my experience the wait times for school district evaluations are very long and geared towards providing as few services as possible. You usually have to be something like two standard deviations away from the mean in a single area of development to qualify for any services. Plus to qualify for continued summer services - which is when you’re looking at at this point- you usually need to prove regression. Not sure if it works this way for a documented disability. Anyway, get her assessed privately and start process for school district because it takes awhile