Savannah’s hearing
I got a call a couple of weeks ago from the school Nurse who did Savannah’s annual physical, hearing and vision test. She said that Savannah’s left ear doesn’t detect hearing pitch of 3000-4000 hz. She said she noticed this last year when Savannah was in preschool. The nurse never mentioned this to me last year!
I mentioned Savannah was sick and could the nurse do a receck in a couple of weeks – which was today. Still the same hearing loss in that ear. She doesn’t have an otoscope to check if she has fluid in her ears.
I told the school nurse that Savannah had seen an audiologist at Providence Hearing Center at Children’s Hospital in Orange a couple of years ago to rule out hearing loss due to her speech issues. Savannah was undergoing tests and evaluations for speech therapy. Anyway, they detected fluid in her ear and told us to come back in a month. Savannah had been sick so it didn’t surprise me that she had fluid in her ear. We came back in a month, they tested her and said her hearing was fine.
So the nurse has referred Savannah to the school district’s audiologist to check her hearing. The nurse did mention that a hearing loss at 3000-4000 is really not a big deal and doesn’t affect the “speech banana” that could affect her speech to due a hearing loss. She said if Savannah turns out to have a hearing loss at that level, that they really is nothing to do because it is so extremely minuscule that it is virtually not a problem for Savannah.
So I will get an appt. set up for Savannah’s hearing test with Centrelia, the school district’s audiologist.
