His classmates were all too noisy in class and I observed my son to be sitting quietly all to his own. During our parents – teachers meetings, his teacher would tell me of the same observation. I was just told by family and peers that it must be a normal delay that children usually encounter when it comes to speech development. But going to people who just knew better revealed an entirely different story.
It did not take me long to get the best quality of hearing aid from the most comprehensive supplier of hearing aids in the country. My son’s audiologist trusts the audiologist who owns and operates this supplier, and we had to rest on the fact that these are professionals talking. These are no longer hear say that caused me huge delays in getting help that my son needed in the first place.
Though he had special needs, his teacher and the school who I thank so much with all my heart never treated him like he had special needs. Through the right choice of hearing aids, he manages to get by daily and even aces class participation and other school requirements. It is not like I paid heavily for this hearing aid – there was a great discount that came with the purchase, thus easing the financial burden that I had to encounter. I had to make him go to special classes outside of the normal school hours and I had to have regular visits to the Audiologists which meant further stress for the household budget. Yet, no price could pay for my son’s normal life.