Thursday, September 11, 2008

Ian's hearing test follow-up

I took Ian to the Audiologist for a follow up due to failing his hearing screen in the nicu. He has great hearing in the right ear but has 50% hearing loss in the left ear :( They will now monitor him to make sure it doesn't affect his speech, and monitor for fluid in the middle ears so that his good ear doesn't sound muffled and affect him. The audiologist said that it's a good thing to know so that when he's older, we know to focus more on his good side for classrooms, etc. Anyhow, we just monitor every 3 months for now, and when he gets older, they can test him better to see what he actually understands vs hearing from the left ear.

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