Your Child’s Hearing Is Among Our Top Priorities
The pediatric audiologists at South Shore Hearing Centers have evaluated hundreds of local children, earning the trust of local pediatricians, families, and schools. We provide a full spectrum of hearing healthcare services to children of all ages.
How Do I Recognize Signs of Hearing Loss In My Child?
Children’s hearing loss can be diagnosed during the newborn screening processes conducted at birth, but some hearing loss doesn’t show up until later on. Consequently, it is necessary to be able to recognize the early signs that your child could be experiencing a problem:
Failure to react to loud noises
Your child makes simple sounds that taper off
Development of speech and language is delayed
Ongoing crankiness for no apparent reason
Causes of Children’s Hearing Loss
Early diagnosis and treatment of hearing loss in children is crucial to support their language and developmental growth.
What Steps Can I Take To Help Deal With My Child’s Hearing Loss?
Here are some steps you can take to help deal with your child’s hearing loss.
Seek Out Experienced Parents
Other parents have had similar struggles and have found ways to deal with them. Seeking the advice of "experienced” parents can help you and provides your child access to other children with hearing challenges.
Hold Onto Dreams & Ambitions
Hearing loss doesn’t mean that your child cannot enjoy a happy, rewarding, and successful life with the same opportunities as others.
Accept, Love, & Encourage Your Child
Your attitude fosters the confidence your child needs in order to be comfortable taking part in everything life has to offer.
How Is Children’s Hearing Loss Treated?
Otitis media is typically treated using medications to decrease fluid build-up, and infection but persistent infections or fluid may call for the insertion of tubes to allow the fluid to drain, prevent infection, and avoid long-term, permanent damage.
Hearing aids can help children as young as 1 month old when an Audiologist is able to accurately diagnose a hearing loss. Cochlear implants, reserved for children with severe hearing loss who are not responding to other forms of treatment, are devices that are surgically placed in the inner ear to help stimulate the auditory nerve.
