My son has always been really prone to ear infections, roughly 9 a year. I noticed that he'd learn a load of words and then forget them when he had an infection. I don't always take him to the docs when he has an infection because they don't want to give him antibiotics incase he gets immune (understandable) but last summer he was left untreated and his eardrum burst. So he was referred to ENT and had a hearing test in Nov 18, which was normal, nurse agreed she thought it was temporary hearing loss from the infections.
He's had another hearing test in Feb, that was slightly worse than the first, yesterday was his consultation at the hospital. They repeated the hearing test and it was quite poor. Consultant said he has glue ear and swollen adenoids, so basically a load of gunk in his ears and can't breathe very well at night (hence why he snores like a grown man)
Anyway, was glad when the consultant said he wanted to do surgery as I'd researched it myself. But here's the snag - it's a year's waiting list (at least). Looked at private, they won't do kids under 3 and closest that will is in Newcastle, we're in Glasgow.
Does anyone have any tips for how to get him to communicate with me more deeply than he is just now whilst we're waiting for surgery. At the moment he is saying "da" and pointing at things or leading my hand to what he wants. I'm thinking about makaton/sign language but no clue where to start so any advice would be much appreciated!!
Thank you in advance & thanks for reading so long
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How can I encourage DS to communicate? Hearing issues
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pyjamapyjama · 14/03/2019 14:09
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