AshJagla
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Hi everyone, my name is Ashley, I'm in my early 20's, I have 2 little girls that are 2 1/2 and 1 yr. They were both premature, with speech delays, but we've just recently realized that our 1yr old's delays are due to her hearing loss.
Not really sure what I'm doing, still waiting to go to my daughter's first audiologist apt this coming Thursday, where I know I'll just be told that she will need further testing by a better hospital. I'm just feeling lost and impatient, I want to know how severe it is, I want to know what her options are and I really need that dx so we can get early intervention over here to help teach us asl and wok with her on speech.
She's 13 months and has never passed a hearing test, but we were always told that those infant ones are so sensitive that if she's too loud or moving too much, they will come back failed, so we didn't worry about it until we noticed she still wasn't responding to her name and hasn't said any words yet... She does coo though, and it sounds as though she varies her pitch... so maybe there is something there still. We've done things like knocking on doors and dropping pans nearby with no interest from her, I hold her on my lap and call her name while she's facing the other direction, she has yet to turn around.
Anyway, I just wanted to come here and see if anyone has had a small child with hearing loss and wants to share their experience, or even an adult who just wants to chat about completely non related issues to pass the time. You can share your thoughts on HAs and CIs or any opinions that you have. I want to try and understand what the world is like to her... I know this isn't a tragedy, a tragedy would be something that would hold her back from living life to the fullest, I don't want to feel sorry for her, she deserves better than that, I just want to be the best mother to her that I can be.
Not really sure what I'm doing, still waiting to go to my daughter's first audiologist apt this coming Thursday, where I know I'll just be told that she will need further testing by a better hospital. I'm just feeling lost and impatient, I want to know how severe it is, I want to know what her options are and I really need that dx so we can get early intervention over here to help teach us asl and wok with her on speech.
She's 13 months and has never passed a hearing test, but we were always told that those infant ones are so sensitive that if she's too loud or moving too much, they will come back failed, so we didn't worry about it until we noticed she still wasn't responding to her name and hasn't said any words yet... She does coo though, and it sounds as though she varies her pitch... so maybe there is something there still. We've done things like knocking on doors and dropping pans nearby with no interest from her, I hold her on my lap and call her name while she's facing the other direction, she has yet to turn around.
Anyway, I just wanted to come here and see if anyone has had a small child with hearing loss and wants to share their experience, or even an adult who just wants to chat about completely non related issues to pass the time. You can share your thoughts on HAs and CIs or any opinions that you have. I want to try and understand what the world is like to her... I know this isn't a tragedy, a tragedy would be something that would hold her back from living life to the fullest, I don't want to feel sorry for her, she deserves better than that, I just want to be the best mother to her that I can be.