I haven`t personally been through my child having hearing loss but my very good friends daughter (born at 24 weeks) has severe to profound loss on the left and moderate to severe on the right. Although it wasn`t picked up until she was 2 she has come on really well with her speech. She tends to shout a bit, but that is usually when her hearing aids need sorting. We all learnt makaton when she was younger to make communication easier but her lip reading skills from an early age were brilliant.

She is 8 now and has radio aids at school and is very happy, has no problems in the classroom or playground. Her favourite trick is to switch off her ha`s when she doesn`t want to hear something, ie being told to clean her room!!

I know her mum got a lot of support from the national deaf childrens society, I`m sure you could google their contact info.

Any q`s, please feel free to ask, if I don`t know the answer I will find it for you.
Jess xxx

Hi

I know a little girl that was born at 29 weeks and has hearing loss. She is now 8 and attends school. she is happy and doing really well.

Keep smiling

hi there

was wondering if anyone know much about premeture babies who have lost there hearing

at 27 wks i had preeclampsia and had section we named them Liam and Tia sadly we lost Tia when she was 3 weeks

liam is 13+4 wks old now and was allowed home on monday tuesday he had to have a second more indepth hearing test as they were getting no response from the first the indepth test takes around a hour or more and showed only a tiny response in 1 ear and nothing in the other the many is seeing him again in 4 wks but truthfully told us he was afraid he did not expect to see any change

so looks like little liam will have to have hearing aids i feel so bad for him and feel its my body to blame

how will he cope speach school is all wizzing round my head

if anyone has been through this please help

amanda xxx