Guest guest Posted August 6, 2006 Report Share Posted August 6, 2006 But the one area that was not consistant, is that his score went way >down when you compared at 3 feet with no competing noise with his >hearing aids and without his hearing aids, no soundfield involved. >He hears better without his hearing aids in. With aids, his score >was 60%, and without aids it was like 90%. The only thing I can >think of is that his ear molds actually hinder his useable hearing >more than the aids help his poor hearing. Does that make sense? Tracey, the functional hearing test is not something that an ordinary clinical audiologist would do. It has to be done in the classroom rather than in a booth. You can do some things to approximate a functional hearing test in the booth, such as with and without FM and with and without noise. Usually educational or school audiologists do functional hearing tests so it was interesting to hear that your TOD did this. You are right, the part about him hearing better with and without hearing aids doesn't make sense. Are you sure that the speech was presented at the same loudness with and without the hearing aids. Have you talked to the TOD about this?? I'd ask lots of questions! Tell her exactly how you are understanding it and see if that is what the report is trying to say. Because it doesn't make sense, mostly because it is inconsistent with the other findings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 6, 2006 Report Share Posted August 6, 2006 > > But the one area that was not consistant, is that his score went way > >down when you compared at 3 feet with no competing noise with his > >hearing aids and without his hearing aids, no soundfield involved. > >He hears better without his hearing aids in. With aids, his score > >was 60%, and without aids it was like 90%. The only thing I can > >think of is that his ear molds actually hinder his useable hearing > >more than the aids help his poor hearing. Does that make sense? > > Tracey, the functional hearing test is not something that an ordinary clinical audiologist would do. It has to be done in the classroom rather than in a booth. You can do some things to approximate a functional hearing test in the booth, such as with and without FM and with and without noise. Usually educational or school audiologists do functional hearing tests so it was interesting to hear that your TOD did this. > > You are right, the part about him hearing better with and without hearing aids doesn't make sense. Are you sure that the speech was presented at the same loudness with and without the hearing aids. Have you talked to the TOD about this?? I'd ask lots of questions! Tell her exactly how you are understanding it and see if that is what the report is trying to say. Because it doesn't make sense, mostly because it is inconsistent with the other findings. > Thanks for your thoughts . I agree. It does not make sense. I have passed it along to my audiologist for her opinion. I do realize that the our audiologist can't do this type of testing on sight at the school, but she has never done any testing with 's aids in at all. I have always questioned this, but she just does not think it is valid. I really like her and want to trust and believe in her, but I have heard so many horror stories that I am going with my gut on this one, and just going to ask for explanation until it makes sense to me. We have an entire lifetime of hearing aid use ahead, so we really need to figure it out. The gal that did the testing is not really a TOD. I don't know how else to describe her, but that is how she is functioning for us. She is actually the director of the local oral school for preschoolers, called " Listen and Talk " . She has a slew of alphabets behind her name, and is heading up the new partnership with our state school for the deaf to support students in the mainstream that are in districts with no deaf/hoh programs or expertise. We have had one meeting with her at our 504 meeting and the school has already installed a soundfield system in my son's room for the fall. (I have been asking for this with documentation from my audiologist for 5 years) I can't tell you how relieved I feel to have someone that knows how to work with the school district on our side. As always, thank you for taking the time to read my post and respond. Your expertise is quite appreciated. And Maggie is a darling girl, and looks like she will make her way through this world just fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 7, 2006 Report Share Posted August 7, 2006 Tracey, boy that is weird that your audi hasn't done any testing with his aides in. My audi always does this. When Mags had ear molds she did real ear testing as well. She said it was possible to do real ear with the open fit but really hard to get the probe deeper than the receiver. So she hasn't done it with the SeboTeks, but always did both soundfield and real ear even though Maggie has Widex and they were programmed while in her ears. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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