Flamechick failed her school hearing test

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DD failed her hearing test with the school nurse this morning

I went to the appointment too so I could be there for the hearing bit because I have been wondering if there was a problem which has caused the speech delay. She said that she would do the full test rather than the more basic one they can do, and she failed on one ear.

She said that one level of fail the nurse retests a bit later, but she is the next stage up so if being referred to audiology

The rational part of me is saying that a) it explains her weird speech, and b) it is probably only something small.

The other part of me is doing the mummy "My baby is broken" thing

Not a lot any of you can do, just needed to say it all!

So sorry for typos,also wanted to say that realising that your baby may be "broken" as you put it can be very upsetting when you realise something is not right.I have found though that all the people I have met with my own dd have been fab and have helped enormously).The journey from being shattered to acceptance of a kind can be a long one,but you will adapt and come through it and your dd will always be your gorgeous dd.Hell I,m crap at wording this stuff.My dd is definitely not a NT child and I am sure outsiders see a "disabled child" whereas I just see dd who is still the dd I've always known and gave birth to,if this makes any sense???

awwww flamey.

tis all good. fantastic positive stories on this thread. totally un derstand inittial rection... and glad youre feeling a bit better about it now. sorry to have been so absent -blardy kids wanted l;ooking after, can you imagine? the cheek of it
they and the chickens all in bed now -alls right with the world (as long as i dont think about it too much - CSI anyone?? )

xx

It is good in some ways to think that there might be a reason for her being so bloody loud all the time This is when it turns out that she just couldn't be arsed to do the test properly and is loud for the sake of it

She is already on SALT assessment waiting list, so we have done some of that waiting I don't think she will be assess until next school year though

Hmmmmmmmmm... interestin name change there. They stopped squabbling now?

I really do love how positive this thread is, it doesn't matter how severe everyone's problem has been, they have all been positive and reassuring.

night flame sleep well and DONT worry all is ok in the end I know that from experience although re nappies im not too sure lol

Re loud you wanna have 3 teenagers in the same house as you all playing different music now that is LOUD!

My little boy is partially deaf in both ears. He his hearing loss is caused by multiple perforations to both ear drums and glue ear. I have no idea if he has glue ear at the moment.

My son wears hearing aids in both ears and has a soundfield system at school. He is doing find academically. It did upset me my son being fitted with hearing aids, but he jumped two stages of the oxford reading tree within two weeks of being issued with the aids.

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Oh, I spoke to DH btw (without telling him the side she failed on) and he asked if it was the right ear as that is the one that burst - and it is.

I am quite impressed that he could remember which ear it was!!!! I was the one holding her when it oozed over me

ooh flame, know what you mean about the oozing. A's ears burst alternately about twice each. maybe more. he seemed to have one ear infection ofter the other for about a year or two when he was really little, poor thing.
has since had them looked at and theres a bit of scar tissue but no problems they can see - which is nice.

I'll never forget the night/morning that B's ear went. She had been sobbing all night, was only happy sleeping upright on one or other of our chests, if we tried to lay down with her then she woke up instantly howling. I thought it was just teeth/a bug

Next morning, exhausted, I told DH to take the car to work (instead of me dropping him off) as I didn't want to disturb DD. About an hour later she was laid on me and let out one quick yell, and then started oozing.

I had to call my mum (I think, maybe Psycho) to take us to the doctor. She looked so much happier when it had burst though. It is one of those hideous nights that will always stick in my mind though like DS with his herpes or when he went grey at Christmas. It was my first moment of there being something wrong with my baby more than a sniffle.

yep A was like that too. the first time i didnt know what was up at all. he had a cold but the misery was getting owrse and worse. he cried and cried for at least a day and night before finally he was csreaming and i was just at a complete loss - nurofen wasnt working, nothing was. was about to take him to hospital when... pop and the oozing. it poured down the side of his face (bleurgh)
scared the crap out of me, buyt he stopped crying, the relief for him must have been immense.
the next time it happened was the other ear and i cottoned on what was happening a little before it did... but not much. it still burst. then another few months... and the first one went again. then the second. was bloody awful. they seemed to give less and less notice that it was building up.
in the end i could spot the symptoms in a heartbeat, and nipped a couple in the bud with antibiotics. and i hate antibiotics unless absolutely neccessary. this definately qualified!
it only ever happened on the w/end too. so the doctors was closed. usually ended up in childrens a&e wtih him, which is stupid really (past the first time where i didnt know what the hell was happening) doctors should be available on the w/end.

I feel a very bad mother. My son ear's have perforated so many times, that I find it hard to remember individual instances. I remember the first time it happened being horrified and not quite know what had happend.

My son's right ear has perforated 6 times and left ear has perforated 3 times. He also has scarring from having grommets.

The most recent perforation was the scariest. Strangely he was not in that much pain. Prehaps because his right ear drum is so fragile and breaks easily. What was frightening was him complaining about tinitus and the fact that his hearing has gone down in his right ear.

I would not worry about school hearing tests too much. I believe that at least a third of my son's class failed their hearing test.

Watching your child being fitted for ear moulds for hearing aids is hard. However my son is doing well with his digital hearing aids and soundfield system at school.

Thought I would update you all.

No update really!!! Have heard back from school nurse that there is no audiology clinic at all in June, so we won't be seen until at least July or August

In the meantime, I don't think that she just didn't play ball with the test I have no idea if it is a big problem or something that grommets etc will fix, but we are trying to make sure she is facing us when we speak, speak loudly and clearly etc, and be patient.

Just wish the appointment would come

Hi - I had lots of grommets and T-tubes as a child, lots of burst eardrums, and eventually also got hearing aids for separate ear problems - so feel free to ask any questions!

In my experience hearing aids are a LOT less hassle than needing glasses - they come in cool colours and are completely free on the NHS, for starters, and break much less easily.

It's really nice to read that you're making sure to face dd when speaking, etc. So many families don't bother. Getting her attention by waving or calling her name, before speaking, will help a lot.