Hearing aid for 10-months girl

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Good evening,

My baby has a deep hearing loss on her left ear (90dB). We are going to buy hearing aid for her and the doctor told us to buy Phonak Q Sky Up saying this would be the best choice for her. By no means I am an expert but the friend of mine (who has been wearing a hearing aid since he was a child) told me that not necessarily she needs so much advanced stuff (with features like noise cancelling etc.) which is also very expensive one. I am a bit lost here. If there are any parents who have the children in, more or less, same age with hearing loss I would be glad if they could give a bit of advice.

Thanks a lot

Wojtek
 
Are you learning and using sign language with your infant? They're are plenty of Baby Sign resources available. "Signing Time" is a good series to start with.
Really don't need advanced features until the child can give you feedback on what they are hearing. Also if child removed it a lot the audiologist had probably got it set too loud trying to get the child in the 0 to 30db loss range. Better to aim for 50or 60db if child is more comfortable and keeps it on. What country are you in.
 
some of us may have been there as kids :)
BTW you might see NaidaUP pop up here as she has Phonaks!
 
soutthpaw said:
Are you learning and using sign language with your infant? They're are plenty of Baby Sign resources available. "Signing Time" is a good series to start with.
Really don't need advanced features until the child can give you feedback on what they are hearing. Also if child removed it a lot the audiologist had probably got it set too loud trying to get the child in the 0 to 30db loss range. Better to aim for 50or 60db if child is more comfortable and keeps it on. What country are you in.
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Yes we are using sign language from the very beginning and we are from Poland :)
 
kefiras said:
Yes we are using sign language from the very beginning and we are from Poland :)
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If you are very limited with money, do you have organization like http://www.sertoma.org/ or http://www.lionsclubs.org/EN/index.php

They may be able to help with getting your daughter hearing aids.

Great that you are using Sign. Your daughter has 100% access to visual languages. She will not have that even with hearing aid for auditory languages.

The idea with hearing and thus young is just to develop awareness of sound not understand speech. The fancy settings on digital heading aids are more for understanding speech esp in select situations. Not really needed now.
 
Welcome to alldeaf...
Great your learning and using aign with your little one...
sign will set her... (refer to my sig)
 
kefiras said:
By no means I am an expert but the friend of mine (who has been wearing a hearing aid since he was a child) told me that not necessarily she needs so much advanced stuff (with features like noise cancelling etc.) which is also very expensive one. I am a bit lost here.
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Having elected to go with an less expensive and less featured hearing aid myself, I can tell you that I really really regret not having spent the extra money for the better noise cancelling, additional programs and ability to control variables.

While it's true that they won't be able to give a lot of feedback on what they are hearing - right now they're also at an age extremely important for language acquisition. The noise cancelling might seem like a "luxury" but it will also provide the best quality of overall sound and ability to make sense of that sound in the most environments. Also keep in mind that provided you get good quality HAs they will hopefully last for many years, and during that time their hearing needs (especially hearing in noisy environments) will change a lot.

It might be more expensive ... but honestly, I'd take the extra flexibility that the more advanced Hearing Aids offer.

P.S. If you had a child who was very low vision and while they couldn't be corrected to 20/20, glasses would help them make more visual sense of their environment. In that case, I'm sure you'd want the best correction, best fitting glasses so they'd be able to see the best they could, right? I think it's the same with hearing aids - neither are a "cure", but in both cases you want to provide the clearest picture (visual or auditory) that you can.
 
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