Instead of the health department, this time we took him to this place called Progressive Audiology. It's where a lot of "old" people go to get hearing aids. The doctor was super nice and tried to establish a good raport with Easton, but my little guy has a mind of his own. Once he saw the toys in the room, it was hard to break him away from playing with them to take the hearing test.
We ended up going into a sound booth room--first try with toys and second try without-- and the doctor would play noises that would come out of different speakers that were in the corners of the room. Easton did pretty well responding to the sounds by looking in the direction of the speaker that was playing the noise, but he has his limits and after about 5 minutes, he had had enough!
The next step was trying to get Easton to be still and not scream long enough for the doc to stick these ear probe things in Easton's ears to see if fluid was behind them...that was not happening! Easton screamed and kicked! He wanted nothing to do with that!
So, we still don't have a passed hearing evaluation for Easton, and now it's on to begging our doctor to sign a provisional certificate. Cross your fingers for us! We need to get him into this intervention program...and soon!
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