DD2 is almost 3 and her speech is awful. I am waiting for an assessment from a speech therapist re delay versus speech disorder (such as verbal dsypraxia). In the meantime the hearing test has come back with hearing loss caused by fluid build up in both ears and she is due to have surgery to fit grommets. From what I have read it is very possible that full hearing will be restored after this, so I am very positive about this. I'm also aware that it is possible that, given the potential long standing nature of her difficulties, there could be a degree of permanent damage. However I am optimistic regarding the outcome for her.
I am wondering if there is any point going forward with speech therapy before she has the surgery of if I should just wait and see if her speech improves as her hearing does. Is there any point in having ST if she cannot hear clearly what the therapist is doing, or is any early intervention going to be positive regardless? Should I focus on adding to her sign language vocabulary? Mix the approach? Presumably her hearing loss is not that severe - hospital have not really given me any info on the degree of loss but she can mimic some sounds, hears if I whisper in her ear etc, so would speech therapy help her in the meantime (3 months till surgery)? I'm not in the UK so I don't have to worry about waiting lists etc: I can access the speech therapy immediately if I wish.
Does anyone have any experience of similar situations, advice etc? Thanks in advance
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Grommets, hearing loss and speech problems
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adoptmama · 07/01/2013 20:17
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