DD (3.3, severe speech delay, possible ASD) finally had her long awaited hearing test today. She has a horrid cold (very sleepy and grumpy with it) and we discovered during the course of the test that she has a mild ear infection (this is about her tenth in the last year) so is running a temp and not a happy girl. She pretty much refused to engage with the technicians, so they did a test where they played sounds together with lighting up a box with toys in, and if she looked when they played the sound (while she was playing with toys in another part of the room) they showed the dancing toys. She was happy to do that bit and had a slightly poor result for higher frequencies on it (mild to moderate according to the notes). Then they repeated her newborn screening test, the OAE (otoacoustic emissions) test and she did really well on that, they said it was a good result. The technician said that she had some congestion in her ears, so glue ear, and that they wanted to see her again in four weeks. I had grommets as a child, as did my brothers, and I have a minor hearing loss (but nothing disabling).
Now does that mean that the first part of the test was innacurate, because she wasn't playing along and she could hear the noises, OR that she basically has good hearing, but at the moment it's bad because of glue ear/colds? So far as I understand, the OAE measures cochlear function, so it's great that she had a good result, but does it measure how well she can hear full stop?
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Help understanding hearing test results please :(
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MummytoMog · 04/12/2012 15:19
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