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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'd just start having your child wear headphones 30 seconds a day and then growing to longer when he is watching the ipad if you allow ipad use.  Otherwise, you can put headphones attached to a boom box and he can listen to music that way

.  He'l get used to it - I wouldn't start with candy, incentives, etc just get them, show them, put them on, let him take them off, put them on, let them be a toy for 2 days, then show him he can hear music or ipad with them.  And when he takes them off, take away ipad or music so he learns the only way he gets music/ipad is that way, he'll be fine!  [/quote]

Many kids can't accurately do hearing tests with headphones because of motor coordination issues--because a child needs to physically indicate when they hear a sound.  A booth is more accurate.[/quote]

Walter Reed has several booths and uses the head phones.  If a child hasn't used headphones before, it can be scary.  At two, they have the child on the parent's lap.  They have one audiologist in the booth and one outside doing the testing.  They have all kinds of cool things to engage the kids in the booth but some kids are scare of it and it takes a few visits.  There is no charge for the visit and the staff don't mind if you come back a few times.[/quote]

Nice to know, but not relevant to what I am saying.  I know how booth testing works.  Motor coordination disorders often are go morbid with speech delays.  The testing with headphones can often be inaccurate for these kids.  Having a child practice getting used to headphones may be a fruitless task.

Motor issues can be subtle.  Kids can have motor issues and still meet milestones.  Parents are often unaware that their child has one until they see a developmental pediatrician for the more obvious speech delay.   OTs, STs, and pediatricians can't diagnose motor disorders.

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