How Can Parents Help Their Child Adjust to Wearing Hearing Aids?
Sometimes the transition to wearing hearing aids is hard for children. Try to make wearing hearing aids a good thing by making it fun. Put the hearing aids in and begin a fun activity with the child right away. If the child likes music, turn on a favorite CD and dance together. If the child likes to read, put in the aids and read a favorite book. If the child likes to play a certain game, then do that. Do whatever the child enjoys. If the child takes the hearing aids out, do not punish him/her. Simply take the hearing aids, put them away, and go do the dishes or make dinner or some other daily activity. After that task is done, put the hearing aids back on the child and begin another fun activity. Soon, the child will realize that when he/she wears the hearing aids, the child gets undivided attention and has fun. When the child takes the hearing aids out, the fun stops and his/her parents pay attention to other things. If the child will only wear the hearing aids for very brief periods
