I dont understand courtneydang. Will you expain to me what does her % hearing loss mean? I never had my hearing loss described in %. Only in decibel. What is your daughters hearing loss in decibel? Also, i live in austin, texas. I also am on humana medicaid/care. I never had to have six ear infections in six months to go to an ENT. Look at your Maunal. If the ENT accepts your Humana medicare/caid then you make the appt and you take your daughter. The other thing. Please help me understandwhy your little girls teacher has not written up an IEP (individual education plan) for your daughter if you already told her she had a hearing loss and had documentation proof from a lic audi. The teacher could had an IEP plan written up that requested your daughter to be referred to an ENT for farther examination. Also, if your daughters audi could have referred her over. Im sorry, i just dont understand this whole thing. Perhaps im in left field , but with my experience this story just doesnt seem right. Are you WANTING a deaf daughter? It seems everyone is fast to slap hearing aids on her and send her off to a deaf school. But I'm no so sure its your lil girl as much as it is the mom. This story has too many flaws.
it was the ENT who said those percentages a few years ago. im really not even sure how he came up with them because she wouldnt do the hearing test, he put these things in her ear and had a little hand held thing that beeped. i dont know what they meant either, he was very confident it wouldnt get worse. i wish i had asked more questions, because i feel like a jackass now.
the audi we went to last week gave me charts that i dont know how to read, but from what i can make out, her right ear is at 40db and the left is 50db.
when she started kindergarten i gave the school her paper from the ent (that was two years old at that point) and had had contact with her teacher on a regular basis. she was progressing at/above speed.
at the beginning of this year (first grade) she was fine. it wasnt untill late september that i started noticing her sitting close to the tv, took her to the eye doctor thinking she couldnt see, then noticed her saying "huh i cant hear you" all the time. so i took her to the pediatrician several times who said her ears looked fine. and there was no need to get a referral to the ent or audi. (never doing a tone test) in october i started asking her teacher if she noticed k having trouble, she said no. so i asked the school nurse to do a hearing test because, that i got back on december 17. and i made an appoinment with the audi for the next week.
ive changed her pediatrician twice. and ive been told she cant see the ENT with out a referral from a primary care doctor. (shes on amerigroup with medicaid). and her old pediatrician said she cant/wont do the referral until she has "chronic recurring ear infections" so im taking her to a different doctor next thursday and bringing her audio report and seeing what they say. i asked the audi if he could do the referral, he said it has to be the pediatrician.
im not sure what kind of people you have contact with that WANT to raise a deaf child, but im not one of them.
im not sure what is "flawed" other than i didnt feel the need to post every detail of her life. bottom line is, my daughter cant hear, and i dont know what to do.
"In most cases, you need to have a referral from your child’s doctor to see another doctor."
^^from her medicaid handbook.