Hi mummabear2013,

Thank you for starting this thread and sharing your experience. I’m sorry to hear about the issues you have had relating to your sons hearing loss.

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Jenny

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Hi 

does your sons school have a Senco?

Thats where I would start - they can help and advise as to any extra support in the classroom - ie seating (my son is always sat facing and at the front) and any aids they can use within school.

Hi mojo! 

Thanks we've now spoken with SENCO which seems to have gotten the ball rolling.

I'm just upset I didn't do this when the problem first presented it's self but we live and learn!

Hi,

Sorry to hear about your son's issues. My situation is not the same but I hope my experience would be of some help.

My son is mild/moderate on his left and moderate to severe on the right ear- the severe element is mainly with his high frequency on the right ear. He had problems in his early years as we only really started using hearing aids at the age of 2 and he therefore was slow with his speech as he could not hear and had to self teach lip reading. Once he started using hearing aids he was more settled and focused at nursery and once he started school,though we had to continue with speech therapy for a little longer whilst he was at nursery due to the delay in him starting hearing aids.

He wears his hearing aids all the time and only really takes them off at night  - so he is quite used to having them on. At school he uses a radio aid which helps him to focus as it takes away background noise. He also sits at the front of the classroom. He usually has a teacher of the deaf and hearing impaired visit the school and together with the school SENCO,they ensure that he is not disadvantaged and that the hearing aids are working ok. He also has audiology every 6 months to check his hearing levels to ensure no deterioration, re-do his moulds and check against prior appointment. I don't know what it means being low frequency impaired for your son but I know my son has had lots of benefit from having his hearing aids, having support from his long term audilogist , support from the teacher of the deaf and the school SENCO so I think  it is worth you laising with all of these professionals mainly the audilogist and the SENCO to see how he can be helped. People tend to undersestimate the impact of hearing loss/impairment, all I can say is because we live with our son we have grown to learn and understand his needs and we try to support him as best as possible by using the services available to him. I have also learnt a lot from the NDCS over the years as this was all new to me too. We never really made an issue of his impairment we just accepted and supported him.