EVIDENCE of being deaf with Hearing Aid device

[Victorias mom]

Aww that's great, it must be really nice to have your daughter being able to hear your voice and being able to hear herself as well too....

Thanks for sharing your story about your daughter and I'm glad that this hearing aids are helping her

Thank you!! This weekend I get the impression she is not hearing as much as the first day. I wonder why? It just seems like she is not responding as she did the first day. It's so hard because she is still little, she could just be ignoring everyone. I guess I have to give it a little longer.

 

[R2D2]

YOu were able to speak before CI so dont tell me you didnt speak before CI device.. sighs!

I dont need your excuses.. I m speaking of Deaf people from Different Deaf cultures from this diverse world. PERIOD!

I am really trying to talk to you person to person Sweetmind but you always react with guns blazing.

In relation to your comments I was born deaf and fitted with hearing aids at age 2. That is how I was able to speak. I am one of those deaf people from different cultures in this diverse world that you are speaking of. It's me.

 

[Boult]

On the flipside, with the deaf friends, I can communicate with them flawlessly but I feel frustrated because we can't really carry complicated conversations. They are mostly on the surface and aimless. ASL isn't flexible when I want to say something in a certain way -- idioms for example, you know.

Yes, I agree! I learned to love the English Idioms. My mother had a book titled "A Dictionary of Idioms for the Deaf by ASD but reprinted by NAD. published back in late 60's. Sad it is not around now...(maybe can find it on amazon who knows) kinda odd eh? Anyway, back in childhood, I ask a lot on what they talking about when I see phrase like "tell it to the marine!" (means "I don't believe you") in a movie where there is no military action like a romance movie. I pest my siblings and they didn't feel like explaining the english idioms to me. So I have the book, I am like ahhh I get it. Then when I was in NTID, I saw the course "English Idioms" I am like "yeah I want to take that to learn more english idioms" even though I went to High school. They didn't talk about english idioms yet just english, literature, grammar. Maybe they discuss that during senior year which I skipped. So the Dictionary of Idioms was helpful.

English is extremely nuanced language and interchangeable and interject-able too. Of course I could sign ASL and inject a bit of dutch signs in it to throw them off LOL...

 

[neecy]

Thank you!! This weekend I get the impression she is not hearing as much as the first day. I wonder why? It just seems like she is not responding as she did the first day. It's so hard because she is still little, she could just be ignoring everyone. I guess I have to give it a little longer.

I think its more that the "NEWNESS" of everything is wearing off so she's not surprised/startled by every new sound and is adapting to it, so you won't see as much of a reaction? I noticed the same in myself. At first EVERYTHING was so new so I reacted to it, but now after a year I find that I don't as much.

 

[Gemtun]

Thank you!! This weekend I get the impression she is not hearing as much as the first day. I wonder why? It just seems like she is not responding as she did the first day. It's so hard because she is still little, she could just be ignoring everyone. I guess I have to give it a little longer.

Please dont think she is ignoring you. It bothers me when I dont respond, people automatically thinks I am ignoring her/him.

It could just be that she was reacting to all sounds at first - she is not recognizing the sounds so she is not responding. Now she is used to sounds but not yet recognize.

That is what happened to me - I finally started recognizing many words/sounds after a year of hearing all mumbo-jumbo.

 

[Victorias mom]

I think its more that the "NEWNESS" of everything is wearing off so she's not surprised/startled by every new sound and is adapting to it, so you won't see as much of a reaction? I noticed the same in myself. At first EVERYTHING was so new so I reacted to it, but now after a year I find that I don't as much.

I was thinking that too. Today my husband walked down the block with my children to see a parade. We wanted to see if she could hear all the firetrucks and marching bands. By the time he walked down the block she was asleep and stayed asleep for the whole thing. I wish she was awake, because then we would have had a better idea if she heard that. I can't imagine she wouldn't hear that, without hearing aids she could hear about 90dbs. I assume that parade was loud enough to hear. In your opinion, do you think she could sleep through that if the hearing aids were working? I know that is hard to answer, just curious on your opinion. Thanks!

 

[Victorias mom]

Please dont think she is ignoring you. It bothers me when I dont respond, people automatically thinks I am ignoring her/him.

It could just be that she was reacting to all sounds at first - she is not recognizing the sounds so she is not responding. Now she is used to sounds but not yet recognize.

That is what happened to me - I finally started recognizing many words/sounds after a year of hearing all mumbo-jumbo.

You have a very good point. I think it's too much to assume she is all of a sudden going to turn her head to a noise. She probably has no idea where anything is coming from.

 

[Boult]

I was thinking that too. Today my husband walked down the block with my children to see a parade. We wanted to see if she could hear all the firetrucks and marching bands. By the time he walked down the block she was asleep and stayed asleep for the whole thing. I wish she was awake, because then we would have had a better idea if she heard that. I can't imagine she wouldn't hear that, without hearing aids she could hear about 90dbs. I assume that parade was loud enough to hear. In your opinion, do you think she could sleep through that if the hearing aids were working? I know that is hard to answer, just curious on your opinion. Thanks!

Yes I have slept thru loud things in my childhood with HA on heh...

addenum: It may not be helpful if I am sleeping with all the sound blasting because I can't see where it's coming from if i am toddler. Chance are that I am in REM stage where sound is oblivious to either deaf or hearing unless violently interrupted like taken out of stroller and being patted on my back thus being woken up. The only way to tell is to look my movement when I am wide awake like searching for where the sound is coming from unless visually aided to where the sound is coming from. (like pointing at the source of sound like fire-truck going by as it goes from soft to loud then soft as toddler's head turn. then maybe get it. you know? )

 

[Gemtun]

You have a very good point. I think it's too much to assume she is all of a sudden going to turn her head to a noise. She probably has no idea where anything is coming from.

Give her brain some time to start recognizing sounds - it is vastly different from just hearing sounds. I still ask people what that sound is when I hear something and it helps me to learn how to recognize it. You will have to make a certain sound over and over and teach her to recognize it. I recall my parents doing that to me over and over when I was a child with HAs.

I dont know how old she is so I cant really say much on this part.

 

[Victorias mom]

Yes I have slept thru loud things in my childhood with HA on heh...

addenum: It may not be helpful if I am sleeping with all the sound blasting because I can't see where it's coming from if i am toddler. Chance are that I am in REM stage where sound is oblivious to either deaf or hearing unless violently interrupted like taken out of stroller and being patted on my back thus being woken up. The only way to tell is to look my movement when I am wide awake like searching for where the sound is coming from unless visually aided to where the sound is coming from. (like pointing at the source of sound like fire-truck going by as it goes from soft to loud then soft as toddler's head turn. then maybe get it. you know? )

I could probably bet money my 4 year old who is hearing could probably sleep through a parade. Like you said when they are in REM stage they can sleep through almost anything. I try and look at her when she is awake to see if she looks for sound. She really doesn't yet.

 

[Gemtun]

I could probably bet money my 4 year old who is hearing could probably sleep through a parade. Like you said when they are in REM stage they can sleep through almost anything. I try and look at her when she is awake to see if she looks for sound. She really doesn't yet.

How old is she?

 

[Fragmenter]

I can't even hear an ambulance on an emergency route fly by me right next to my car! I've had around 5 instances where I could have collided with an ambulance! At 90 decibels, it's not enough to hear an emergency vehicle right next to you and forget about hearing them from a distance.

I think your daughter should have at least heard the parade because I can hear crickets chirp at night when I'm outside wearing my wife's hearing aids. Give her time and see if she responds to you when she's 6 months old. If not, have her take another hearing test and go from there.

By the way, our children falls asleep listening to music cds with their hearing aids on at nights.

 

[Victorias mom]

Give her brain some time to start recognizing sounds - it is vastly different from just hearing sounds. I still ask people what that sound is when I hear something and it helps me to learn how to recognize it. You will have to make a certain sound over and over and teach her to recognize it. I recall my parents doing that to me over and over when I was a child with HAs.

I dont know how old she is so I cant really say much on this part.

She is only 4 months old. I found out right after she was born she failed her hearing tests, then six months later we did a few ABR's. Everything is happening pretty fast (us New Yorkers do everything fast!). I've been told to do what you said. When I show her a toy, like a rattle, I say shake, shake, shake. They want her to try and recognize patterns of words, plus the different pitches of words. This is all so new to me, but I am trying! in reality, a lot of the stuff they have me do is not much different than I would do with a child who could hear without aids.

They did tell me to wait about 3 weeks before we can fairly say she is hearing or not hearing.

 

[Gemtun]

She is only 4 months old. I found out right after she was born she failed her hearing tests, then six months later we did a few ABR's. Everything is happening pretty fast (us New Yorkers do everything fast!). I've been told to do what you said. When I show her a toy, like a rattle, I say shake, shake, shake. They want her to try and recognize patterns of words, plus the different pitches of words. This is all so new to me, but I am trying! in reality, a lot of the stuff they have me do is not much different than I would do with a child who could hear without aids.

They did tell me to wait about 3 weeks before we can fairly say she is hearing or not hearing.

Ahhhh - that explains it. Smile. Give it time. You will be amazed in no time how a CI can change her life. Best of luck with working with her

 

[Victorias mom]

Ahhhh - that explains it. Smile. Give it time. You will be amazed in no time how a CI can change her life. Best of luck with working with her

Thank you very much, I appreciate the good wishes!!

 

[Fragmenter]

Don't fall in the trap of trying too hard. Enjoy this hardship with your daughter because she will never be an infant again when she grows. Just take the experts' advice with a grain of salt because you are her mother and parents knows best.

Enjoy this beautiful time with her... she will always be yours no matter what.

I wish we could have another baby! LOL.

 

[Boult]

She is only 4 months old. I found out right after she was born she failed her hearing tests, then six months later we did a few ABR's. Everything is happening pretty fast (us New Yorkers do everything fast!). I've been told to do what you said. When I show her a toy, like a rattle, I say shake, shake, shake. They want her to try and recognize patterns of words, plus the different pitches of words. This is all so new to me, but I am trying! in reality, a lot of the stuff they have me do is not much different than I would do with a child who could hear without aids.

They did tell me to wait about 3 weeks before we can fairly say she is hearing or not hearing.

that's almost same thing they do to their hearing kids.. "shake shake shake" while hearing the toy rattle.. that develop 'association' whatever...

 

[Cloggy]

She is only 4 months old. I found out right after she was born she failed her hearing tests, then six months later we did a few ABR's. Everything is happening pretty fast (us New Yorkers do everything fast!). I've been told to do what you said. When I show her a toy, like a rattle, I say shake, shake, shake. They want her to try and recognize patterns of words, plus the different pitches of words. This is all so new to me, but I am trying! in reality, a lot of the stuff they have me do is not much different than I would do with a child who could hear without aids.

They did tell me to wait about 3 weeks before we can fairly say she is hearing or not hearing.

I remember trying all the ring-tones of the mobile next to my daughters head.. nothing.
Then went for the heavy artillery... a smokealarm. Believe me, they are LOUD and ANNOYING....... Nothing.

 

[Victorias mom]

I can't even hear an ambulance on an emergency route fly by me right next to my car! I've had around 5 instances where I could have collided with an ambulance! At 90 decibels, it's not enough to hear an emergency vehicle right next to you and forget about hearing them from a distance.

I think your daughter should have at least heard the parade because I can hear crickets chirp at night when I'm outside wearing my wife's hearing aids. Give her time and see if she responds to you when she's 6 months old. If not, have her take another hearing test and go from there.

By the way, our children falls asleep listening to music cds with their hearing aids on at nights.

Wow, that's scary. That is reason enough for me to want her to hear. I would hate for anything like that to happen to you or anyone!

I really do need to just give it time.

 

[Gemtun]

Don't fall in the trap of trying too hard. Enjoy this hardship with your daughter because she will never be an infant again when she grows. Just take the experts' advice with a grain of salt because you are her mother and parents knows best.

Enjoy this beautiful time with her... she will always be yours no matter what.

I wish we could have another baby! LOL.

Fragmenter is right - enjoy it.

I was the youngest toddler in state of CA to start lipreading/speech therapy at age 1 1/2- back then in 60's, they didnt know how soon they could train a toddler. I was a guinea pig lol. They had to bribe me with each sugary cereal for each sound I made or recognized.

Now I see they are doing it as early as 4 months old - wow - but dont push it - she ll eventually catch up