Bebonang
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Hi my 18 month old son has severe to profound bilateral loss .. Hes had his ha's for about 2 and a half weeks... Anyone have any advice or experiences ...how do i know if ha,s will help him enough for speech .. Or is ci his only option ... How do we tell i he benefits from them
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It is better to learn to sign Baby signs almost close to ASL to your son. Don't ever left him out. As for Speech therapy, that would be a time consuming and take his education away from that. But you can use both but you can not expect him to speak perfectly. If he can hears, but not say words, then you need to wait while you are using sign language to him. Later you can get someone to train him to speak but don't omit ASL when he is old enough.
You have to remember that deaf babies see everything like visual. That is why sign language like ASL is very important to him. So learn to sign and then give him the lessons to learn signing Baby signs. He would love you for that.