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[quote=Anonymous]Before sharing my experience I need to say that my kid is different situation. He has normal hearing in one ear and sever loss in the other. For several reasons we didn't know that he can benifit from hearing aid till a year ago and now he us 5 in K. We did the pre school special ed in Fairfax for 18th month in combination to a regural day care. We weren't offered special hard of hearing/deaf school because they and us felt with accommodation he can do fine in a regural school. What I want to caution you about that in FCPS they didn't understand the impact of his hearing loss on his development. He was showing behavioral issues and they felt its ADHD. I was sure it was not and after a year on hearing aid, my gut feeling was confirmed. It was his hearing loss that caused it. He get service from hard if heating teacher and I don't know how helpful that is. Maybe in the selfe advocacy, other than that, I don't feel he learned much. So my advice for you is to keep using the hearing aid. My kid grew so much in a year since we got it. Also always question the opinion when teachers tell you that some issues are not related to the hearing loss. I do think there is still little understanding of how much hard of hearing affect children and because my kid hear fine, his teachers tend to undermine the impact it has on him. Good luck![/quote]

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