Now what???

So we had an appointment with Dr. Kenawy today for Julia. We went to see if there was fluid in her ears. We saw the A.R.N.P Beverly and she checked Julia's ears and guess what! No Fluid! Surprise, we knew that. So she referred us to Dr. Tran (the best E.N.T in the tri-state area so I hear) and he will do a Tympanometry, a test used to detect disorders of the middle ear. This will allow them to see if there is fluid in the middle ear. Doubt it, she has never had an ear infection, fluid in the middle ear would most likely cause one or two.
Tuesday we have an appointment with the school boards Dr. to have her evaluated. She will have a hearing test again with her and we should know more then.
So now these are the possibilities in a nutshell. 1. There is nothing wrong and just needs lots more intensive speech therapy. 2. She has fluid in her ear and will need tubes to serve two purposes, 1 let the fluid out and 2 to allow sound in and 3. She is deaf and will need to find out why and get hearing aids. I am hoping for the first option. I will let you know more Tuesday.

She's deaf!

OK, so I am a little upset because I toll Julia to the audiologist in February 2009 and when we left the office they said "she is fine no need to follow up." So I arranged for her to be evaluated by the public school service called Child Find to get her in to full time K-3 with the public school and receive speech therapy. She has been in speech therapy for a year and she reached a plateau. So her therapist referred her to Child Find. Jennifer who runs Child find asked for the audiologist report that I said was fine. When I picked up the report to day and it said that she was completely deaf in the right ear and partially deaf in the left ear I was SHOCKED! No wonder she can't talk! She can't hear! So Now I am not sure what to do because I don't trust the Doctor and I can't take her back to the same audiologist. I suppose the next step is to go to an E.N.T. I have always suspected that she couldn't hear because of the way her speech was but then I was told that was not the problem. I am confused and need to know where to go from here!