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[quote=Anonymous]Thanks so much for your helpful reply.

My child is in MCPS.  In an IEP meeting, I presented a report from the Georgetown Hospital audiologist who recommended the assistive listening device.  The IEP team determined that since there was no educational impact, there would be no assistance.  No alternative was mentioned about getting the assistive listening device under a 504 plan instead of an IEP.  (I now understand the 504 does not require demonstration of an educational impact.)

At the IEP meeting (at central office because it was summertime), the person who was representing MCPS audiology (who I believe was the head, but am not 100% sure) said that MCPS only provides hearing aids and does not provide non-hearing aid devices.  When I said that that didn't sound right since I thought that all schools had an obligation to provide accommodation for disabilities even mild ones, she hedged and said that sometimes in very rare circumstances they will do a trial of an assistive listening device, but not in mine because it didn't fit the "guidelines", which she would not produce or reference for me.

The same woman also rejected our private audiologist's diagnosis of a "mild hearing loss" because MCPS had different guidelines for hearing loss and didn't consider what my audiologist found to be a hearing loss but rather within the spectrum of normal.  This despite the fact that my audiologist worked at a major hospital and was presumably using some professional standard.  When pressed by me to provide some reference to the MCPS standard, the audiologist refused.

Clearly, we got the run around.  3 years later, with many of the same problems, I am trying again.  This time I hope to be more prepared.

My child constantly "mishears" things in the classroom and at home.  He often fails to respond when spoken to.  He has a terrible time learning a foreign language (words are wildly mangled).  His hearing checks out as normal at this point (after a long history of ear infections and tubes), but I am concerned he might have auditory processing disorder.  He also has been diagnosed with other language related issues (phonological disorder and mixed expressive/receptive language disorder).  We are going thru an expensive round of private audiologist, speech/lang path and neuropsych testing to try to get a clear diagnosis and plan.

Can you share anything about symptoms, diagnosis or assessment experiences that lead you to the FM trainer?  Is that the only accommodation that you find necessary?

Thanks![/quote]

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