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[quote=Anonymous]My 3 year old sometimes asks what a sound is repeatedly because it’s a bit scary for him and he’s looking for reassurance. You might just have a sensitive kid.

As far as the hearing goes, you can make an appointment with a pediatric audiologist without seeing your ped. Make sure it’s someone who has a lot of experience with young kids. They’re not the easiest to test but 3 is an easier age than 2. A significant hearing loss would likely be causing a significant speech delay and lack of intelligibility by now, but kids with a milder to moderate level of hearing loss can potentially slip under the radar. It is possible, but unlikely, that your kid gets startled by loud sounds because he isn’t hearing the softer “lead up” to the louder parts, if that makes sense. But I know a lot of kids with hearing loss and I’ve never heard a parent say that sensitivity to loud sounds was a first sign that something was wrong. Speech delay and lack of intelligibility  are by far the most common signs. [/quote]

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