Nine Years Old - Hearing Loss
Friday November 27, 2009
Just approved a new posting to the Readers Respond page on parents' reaction to hearing loss. "Guest Carrie" writes that her nine-year-old son was recently identified with a hearing loss, and she wishes that she had been more insistent with his doctors when he was younger.
Early intervention is always best but it is never to late to do what is best for your child. Submerge him/her is the deaf community. Let him/her join clubs or classes that are taught in sign. Join a play group that has deaf children in it. Get in touch with your local state school for the deaf, they usually have free sign classes. Do this all with the thought in mind that your child could eventually go deaf and it is best for him/her to learn sign now while he/she still has a little hearing. Best of luck to you. I too am a hearing parent with a deaf child. Finding out she was deaf was a hard pill to swallow at first but now I see her at college functioning like any other hearing child and it makes me feel good that I chose the path of sign and access to the deaf community.