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[quote=Anonymous]If your preschooler was diagnosed with hearing loss, how did this work? I have a 4 year old (actually I wrote the “what do you wish you’d known” post recently). My DH and I think many of her challenges stem from not being able to hear well and the anger / fear this causes. (Angry when we don’t understand her, afraid of things that rumble like vacuum, trucks, trains etc) She failed her newborn screen at birth in one ear. The next day she was a low pass in both ears. She’s had audiology appointments that she passed at certain frequencies or in one ear and they’ve said “it’s wax” or “it’s her cold” etc. At 10 months she had a perforated ear drum. At 13 months she got ear tubes and the tube is still in the right ear. (I don’t know why the ent hasn’t removed it). At her 4 year appointment they did the ear phone test and she didn’t raise her hand unless prompted. She just went to the audiologist for the first time in a few years. They did the ear phone test - after raising her hand once or twice, she just sat there. The person doing the test said “remember, raise your hand if you hear a birdy chirp” and then she’d raise her hand. At home we asked if she could hear it or if she was just pretending. She said “sometimes it was too quiet and it was hard to hear but mostly I was just pretending.” So who knows... then they did the newborn screen and it failed in her right ear. They said “that’s probably because she still has a tube in and the screen doesn’t work well with tubes”. The take-away was she didn’t pass anything but “she’s probably hearing just fine and wasn’t focused on the test”. I wrote the pediatrician to ask what the next steps should be if, unlike the audiologist, we do not think “she’s probably hearing just fine”. Did anyone have clearer / more conclusive results at this age? Or a diagnosis? If so I’d welcome advice!!! Thanks in advance. [/quote]
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