On Monday we went to Children's for yet another hearing test. We were thrilled to be working with Katherine, our original Audiologist this time. We also got lucky and Shana was our booth Audiologist. She was great with Brian and really kept his attention well!
The results weren't all we had hoped for, but they did prove that the mono definitely affected his test when he was 9 months old. Monday's test showed that he does not have a moderate loss as the 9 month test indicated. However, his loss is a worse mild than it was originally. Based on the audiogram, Katherine said she would suggest a hearing aid trial. However, given his (more than) normal speech and language development to date, we all agreed to continue to monitor him closely and retest at 15 months. Katherine said that most kids testing in this range would not be developing normally as far as speech and language, so we're kind of in uncharted territory here. But the bottom line overall for now is that we are not going to do a hearing aid trial between now and October unless we see a decline in his development. We will revisit the idea in October when we retest and reevaluate his language abilites.
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