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Originally Posted by Tim Walsh
AHH boomers, at least he won't be sticking his head to fridge anytime soon then/  They do the implants for people over a certain db loss, but it's not just total deafness. According to my wife it's about 70db of hearing loss before you're considered for implants as an adult, and 60-80 for children depending on where on the scale it is. Steff also says that UNC is the best in the state for aids/implants.
Good for you to get him aids early. The earlier a kid gets his hearing the better he does in school and languages, it really does make a huge difference.
Hang in there, it'll get better and he's in good hands. |
Thanks for the info Tim, we had heard that UNC is the place for hearing loss.
With the assessment we had last week he is about 5 months behind in speech. I thought that was pretty good considering he only hears about have of the vowel sounds.