Hearing?

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My son had 3 previous hearing tests, all coming back fine. To my surprise,

when I brought him in for his testing with the school system to get ready for

his transition from Early Steps he didn't pass his hearing test. The last

test he had was one year previous. We thought it might be due to a cold/runny

nose he had at the time. About 3 weeks passed and I brought him in for a

previously scheduled Ear, Nose, and Throat appointment and the audiologist ran

another test - a tampanagram (not sure of spelling). Again, he didn't pass.

The doctor then cleaned out some wax from his ears and took a look inside.

He still had fluid resting there. My son has not run a lot of ear

infections or anything that would indicate to me his hearing is off, but he does

tend to have a whole lot of runny noses due to allergies. I was wondering

if anyone in this group had a child who had a lot of fluid between their ears or

any history of hearing difficulties?

My speech therapist has commented that he is one of the only children she has

that reads her lips to learn words over doing signing. Now I am beginning

to wonder if hearing is playing into the apraxia as well. I would have

expected him to have a lot of ear infections if he was holding a lot of fluid.

Anyone out there with anything similar? I'm a little baffled as he's passed

the 3 other tests.