Georgia had a hearing test done recently with an audiologist. She has a little bit of hearing trouble with the ear that had the ear tube fall out right after her surgery, but she hears well enough out of that ear and perfectly out of the other ear. The audiologist said that her hearing is definitely good enough that it shouldn't negatively impact her speech and language development.
The hearing tests were kind of cool. First the audiologist put this little device in each of her ears and checked for fluid behind her eardrums. Then she put another device in each ear that made noises and then checked for a response from the nerves in her ears to see if she was hearing the noises. That device made a graph on a computer screen and we could see that Georgia had trouble with certain frequencies in her left ear.
After that, we went to a special room inside of a room that had speakers on opposite walls. The audiologist watched through a window as she played different noises at different volumes from one speaker and then the other. The audiologist was checking to see if Georgia looked at the appropriate speaker when the sound was played. Georgia looked immediately at the right-side speaker every single time she should have. With the left speaker she'd usually look over eventually, but if the noise was quieter or lower in tone then there was more of a delay before her brain registered the noise and she looked at the speaker.
Overall, though, Georgia's hearing is not impaired to the point that there's anything we can do about it. The audiologist said there was a little bit of fluid in her left ear and that the fluid probably comes and goes, making her hearing better some days than others. Hopefully as she gets older she'll outgrow the issues creating fluid in her ears.
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