How will the hearing aids help?
The hearing aids amplify sounds and feed them to the ear so as to enable the child to make use of his/her residual hearing. Hearing aids do not cure a hearing loss nor do they restore normal hearing. That is why, even after wearing a hearing aid the child may participate poorly in conversation or even respond poorly to sounds in the environment. However the child improves with intensive auditory training. The aim of the audiologist is to fit a hearing aid which provides maximum benefit with respect to hearing all sounds and especially speech. However this is not practically achieved in every case. Some children may not get the desired benefit with any hearing aid so as to depend fully on hearing for all the ordinary purposes of life. Then the hearing has to be supplemented with speech reading. If the benefit is very inadequate, decisions about cochlear implant can be made at a later point of time. It is important to ensure that the child receives a guided auditory training as even chil
