A few weeks ago we learned my 3 year old son has severe hearing loss in both ears.
He passed the hearing test at birth and has been such a healthy little boy, we noticed his speech was a bit garbled from the age of 2 and he was a loud kid always vocalising so loudly. He was picking up words and phrases and responding to requests and questions so we thought it was a speech and language issue, it sounded like he couldn’t make certain sounds, pronounced words strangely like his mouth was too full, also hasn’t picked up words, sentences or understanding questions like his sister did. Speech and language wanted a hearing test done first and lo and behold he had mild sloping to severe profound sensorial hearing loss in both ears.
We are distraught, so many questions, we are very early days, he will be given hearing aids next month with the audiologist. It’s taking until November to meet with the paediatric team to start investigating what has cause this.
in the mean time we have reached out to charity’s and started learning sign language. We were advised not to look into reasons why this has happened, I’m guessing because there are some nasty conditions and so far I haven't but November is so far away.
Is this it, will it get worse, is this part of something else, is he ok cognitively. This is all racing through our heads.
he also starts school next year, his sister just aced reception and I have seen how quickly children are expected to grasp reading and writing, he seems so so far off doing anything like that but I guess a lot can change in a year.
I love him so much, when we spend our days together everything seems normal as it was before and I can keep the thoughts away but the second he is down for the night it’s all I can think of.
i don’t think there are any questions in here, just a stream of consciousness.
any advice would be welcome