DS was dx at birth with a mod / severe hearing loss. His hearing tests always give the same responses. Thresholds are in the region of 60 - 80db across the board. None better than 60db. But why then do we still think there are times he can hear us and other noises (he's 5 btw) without hearing aids in? Some examples:
When he was a baby he was sleeping in his cot. I went into the room and saw the lid was up on the baby wipe dispenser. Not wanting them to dry out I pushed the lid down and it clicked shut. With the click he startled.
This morning he had his back to me and was facing the wall. No pictures / mirrors or anything that could reflect anything to him. I said quietly "Go to your room and play". He repeated back "Yes, I'll go and play in my room."
He says he can hear dh and I talking in the evening when he's lying in bed and sometimes even complains about us talking downstairs.
He says that without his hearing aids he can hear me and dh quite easily. When asked what else he can hear without his aids he says the cats and sometimes the birds.
We get these things about once or twice a week when he really makes us wonder if they've got his dx right. But he's been tested so many times I find it hard to believe they've got it wrong. But it all doesn't make sense.
Part of his hearing problems seems to be an oversensitivity to background noise and loud noises. We've been told he's much more sensitive to background noise than the average hearing aid user. We've also been told that he's still learning to distingish environmental sounds that given his loss and excellent speech they would have expected him to have learnt by now. For example he still questions the noise the fridge makes everytime it kicks in.
Is there anyone who could explain this discrepancy between his tests and occasional rl situations?