Guest guest Posted February 12, 2006 Report Share Posted February 12, 2006 I had a meeting the other day with our educational audiologist. We were discussing my son's speech recognition scores. (His annual meeting and transition to kindergarten is coming up) His scores have been relatively stable in the last four months. For speech recognition he has 64% in one ear and 56% in the other. Now hopefully some of you veterans out there can help me are these really bad scores? How can you decide if the speech reception is good if your child has only had three tests in the last six months? I am being pushed into thinking about getting a CI in the next year based on these scores. Which I know they aren't that great, but I am still having difficulty letting go of the fact that he has only been aided for 1 1/2 years and therefore is still learning speech, period. Aided speech reception has been tested to be in the 30-35 decibel range, but he will never reach that level in the higher frequencies because of the majority of the loss in the higher frequencies is profound. I have always thought about getting a CI if my sons hearing progressed to being profound across the board but I feel that he hasn't been aided long enough to know whether he is not hearing enough. (I need to also add that my son has gone from a very limited vocabulary of about 30-40 words before aiding to sentences now. So he is making a lot! of progress.) Please tell me about your test scores...speech reception and recognition. Are there a lot of people who have CI's with kids ranging from moderate to profound loss? Thank you guys, Regina Mom to Max 4 1/2 moderate/profound SNHL and Cecelia 2 year old monster Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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