1. If all the tests in Step 1 indicate
a problem, please take the child to an ENT doctor in the nearest hospital
as soon as possible |
| 2. If the hearing impairment
is treatable / correctable, the ENT Doctor will do the needful. If
it is not a correctable hearing loss, he will send you to an Audiologist |
3. The Audiologist will assess the
child by putting him through various audiological tests. He will prescribe
a suitable hearing aid for the child, and may recommend a shop from where
to buy it. |
| 4. Please buy the hearing aid.
The hearing aid shop may have the facility to take the impression of the
child’s ear to make moulds for the child. Don’t use ear tips. Custom-made
ear moulds are essential. If the shop does not have this facility find
where you can have this done. |
| 5. The mould should be ready
in a week’s time. Once the ear moulds are ready, please start using the
hearing aids. |
6. The child may at first refuse
to wear the hearing aids, but distract him when you put on the hearing
aids and ensure that the child is wearing the hearing aid through out his
waking hours. |
| 7. Each time the child tries
to remove the hearing aid distract him so that he does not remove it. After
a period of three or four days he will stop trying to remove the hearing
aids. |
 
8. Remove the hearing aids only
when the child is sleeping or having a bath. |
9. Please check to ensure that the
batteries and the hearing aids are in working condition every four
hours. The normal life of the battery is about a week. |
10. Make a harness which is a kind
of belt to be worn by the child at his chest level. This harness should
have pockets to hold the hearing aid secure. This harness will ensure that
the hearing aid does not fall down and is secure |
| 11. The harness should be worn
over the top most layer of the Childs clothes. There should not be any
cloth covering the hearing aids. It will cause a lot of noise disturbance
to the child. |
| 12. Hearing aid attracts attention
of people. You may have to face embarrassing situations. People may
ask uncomfortable questions. This should not affect you. Your child needs
the hearing aids to hear. |
| 13. Start on the early intervention
programme. The earlier that you start the better the child will develop. |