Hi
I'm hoping that there might be someone out there with experience of hearing problems who can offer me information or reassurance. My daughter, age 7, just told me last week that she can only hear the person on the telephone when she holds it to her right ear. I arranged a hearing test at school and as predicted she heard nothing at all on her left side.(it was headphones where she had to clap when she heard a sound) She has been referred to the hospital but in the mean time I'm desperately trying to find some possible explanations. She was 6 weeks early and never passed her initial hearing test but was signed off by the audiologist at 18 mths because her speech was so good. She has always had a problem with her balance, but when she was 5 we discovered that her eye sight was quite poor so she now has glasses. Now I'm wondering whether a hearing problem in one ear could have been causing a problem with her balance all this time? I'm just feeling like the world's worst Mum. She spent the first 5 years not being able to see properly and now I don't think I can stand it if I've also failed to notice a hearing problem!