Another question... hearing aids and glasses

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Hi, I have another issue we’ve been struggling with (besides lack of sleep J). My 4-year-old with Ds has been wearing hearing aids since he was 17 months old. He has a mild to moderate hearing loss and they will supposedly help him with speech development (which has been slow going). His wearing of the aids is sporadic at best. He wears them consistently at school, which is five mornings a week. At home, he fights them. He’ll keep them in to watch a tv show, or other things like that that we “make” him wear them for, but pulls them out the second the activity is finished. We go next week for a follow up eye appt and he is most likely now also going to need glasses! I am dreading this. It’s been 2.5 years with the hearing aids and we’re not where we need to be, and now we’re going to add glasses?! Does anyone else have a child with both? Any tips on keeping them both on? Or did anyone else struggle with it at a young age before the child agreed to keep both on? Thank you! EileenMom to Owen (10), Maeve (8), Colin (4/Ds) and (4)