Audio eval - waste of time
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| Wed, 10-25-2006 - 12:38am |
After all that time and questioning and everything else, they only did a basic hearing test today. They did not do the tests for speech in noise like I had requested. They did nothing but the basics and of course there was that infamous phrase "within normal limits". They won't help fit him for an amplification system because he isn't "Hard of Hearing" and he has to go to a different kind of audiologist for that.
Then she gave me a business card of an audiologist over an hour away who does the kind of testing I want but of course it isn't covered by our insurance. So I have a call into the district since they wanted this evaluation as well to see what they say.
All I can say is AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH
Maybe I can get it as part of his diagnostic center eval. Probably have to go through a whole new 6month referral process for that. Does this crap ever stop?
Renee


Oh for goodness sake!!
You'd have thought they'd have told you it would be a basic hearing test.
We had the works done when Liam was 5 (only as it was a referral by the dev ped at Kennedy Krieger, otherwise he's never have gotten in for months either)
Cait does, or the neuro assumes she does.
When she was 7 we found out that the main part of her seizure activity was in the main language center of the brain. The left temporaral lobe I think.
At any rate, Cait had a big language delay as a toddler and preschool her. She had an explosion right around age 5. The doctor said with the amount of issues in that portion of the brain the only explaination was that the other side of Cait's brain took over the language because she still should have been having major language issues.
I do know that things are a bit out of kilter for Cait. Perhaps that is why they are more concrete? Since the left side of the brain is typically the more creative and the right more logical (or is it the opposite from that).
Well what ever it was, the assumption was that Cait's language processing center and language center had moved to the opposite side of her brain.
Renee