QA:你如何判断你的孩子是不是聋了?

Shannon West
My youngest had a few ear infections when he was 2-3 years old. It was usually only one ear and it hurt, so I would know about it. Well, at one point he had an infection in both ears and he didn’t indicate anything was wrong.

我最小的孩子在2-3岁的时候有过几次耳部感染。通常有一只耳朵疼，所以我知道。有一段时间他的两只耳朵都感染了他并没有表现出有什么不对劲。

What I noticed as his mom was that he wasn’t as obedient as usual. He seemed to be ignoring me, which wasn’t like him. I noticed when I would get close, face to face with them, and then speak, that he would then respond. However, if I called down the hall “lunch time” he wouldn’t come. He seemed more in his own world than before.

我作为他妈妈注意到的是，他不像平时那么听话了。他好像无视我，这可不像他。我注意到当我靠近他，和他面对面交谈时，他会做出回应。但是，如果我在大厅里叫他“吃饭啦”，他就不会来。他似乎比以前更沉浸在自己的世界里了。

So, I did a test. With him sitting down facing the other way, I came up behind him and I made some sounds with different things I had on hand. He didn’t respond unless the sounds were really close or loud.

所以我做了个测试。他在对面坐着，我走到他身后，用手头的不同东西发出一些声音。他没有回应，除非声音真的很近或很响。

The next step was to take him to the doctor’s. Sure enough, he had fluid build-up in both ears. He ended up needing tubes inserted in his ears, but he didn’t have major ear problems after that. He did have one major bout when he was about 8 and the ear doctor helped him with that. He told me later that hearing while he had the ear infection was like listening to someone from underwater.

下一步便是带他去看医生了。果然他的双耳都有积液。最后，他的耳朵需要插管子，但从那以后，他的耳朵没有出现大的问题。他在8岁的时候确实大发做过一次，耳科医生治好了他。后来他告诉我，在他耳朵感染的时候听声音就像在水下听人说话一样。

TL;DR. Is your child “ignoring” you when not face to face? Does your child not respond to sounds behind their back in a home test? You can make this a game: have them close their eyes and raise their hand if they hear a noise. If this has been going on for a while, does your child have difficulty pronouncing words? (More typical w-for-r swap or lisping.)

医生提醒：当没有面对面的时候，你的孩子会“忽视”你吗? 在家庭测试中，你的孩子对背后的声音没有反应吗? 你可以做一个游戏:让他们闭上眼睛，如果他们听到噪音就举手。如果症状持续了一段时间，你的孩子是否有发音困难? (比较典型的交互障碍或口齿不清。)

Georgia McTainsh
Hey! My name is Georgia, I’m 19. I was born hearing impaired and was diagnosed at 3 years old, technology wasn’t great back then, my mum found out I was hearing impaired as I wasn’t responding to her calls or noises and my younger sister started talking before me. Normally you would have a health check as soon as your born and be referred to audiologists if you have hearing difficulties. I got my first set of hearing aids at Age of 3, I was behind on speech, my hearing has been deteriorating since then (unknown why, natural causes). School has been hard for me, often have no clue what is going on, I moved to school of deaf when was 13, having access and using sign language interpreters in my classes, has been the best thing that has happened to me. My speech has improved. I am Profoundly deaf now, last year I got bilateral cochlear implants and cannot hear without them. Am off to college once this virus settles! :)

嘿!我叫乔治娅，今年19岁。我天生就有听力障碍，在3岁的时候确诊的，那时候科技并不发达，我妈妈之所以发现我有听力障碍，是因为我对她的呼叫和噪音没有反应，并且我的妹妹在我之前学会说话。通常你一出生就会进行健康检查，如果你有听力障碍，你会被转介绍给听力学家。我在3岁时得到了我的第一套助听器，我的语言能力落后，从那以后我的听力一直在恶化(不知道为什么，自然原因)。对我来说上学一直很困难，我经常不知道发生了什么，我在13岁的时候去了一所聋哑学校，在课堂上有机会使用手语翻译，这对我来说是最好的事情。我的言语水平提高了。我现在完全聋了，去年我接受了双侧人工耳蜗植入，我没有它们就听不见。病毒一消失我就去上大学!:)

Patricia Rogers
Coming from someone is partially deaf. My mom and them noticed things as I was getting older as to me not hearing when they would talk to me on my left side. They would take me into the doctor and the ent ran tests and yes they figured out I had no hearing on my left side. The doctors explanation was that it was due to so many ear infections because I had many.

摘自某位聋人。随着年龄的增长，我的妈妈和他们注意到了一些事情，他们在我左侧和我说话时，我听不见。他们带我去看医生，给我做了耳鼻喉检查，是的，他们发现我的左侧没有听力。医生解释说这是由于我有太多的耳部感染。

Fast forward in 2015 I learned that the doctor who originally diagnosed me was wrong. I was actually born deaf and to my surprise it was nothing I did wrong or my parents. I can say that if you are speaking to your child and they do not acknowledge you then yes it may be time to go into the ent. If loud sounds do not seem to startle your child like it would for other children it would be time to go to the ent.

时间快进到2015年，我发现最初诊断我的医生是错的。令我惊讶的是，这不是我做错了什么，也不是我父母做错了什么，事实上，我是天生耳聋。我可以说，如果你和你的孩子说话，他们不回应你，那么是的，也许是时候去看耳鼻喉科了。如果大声似乎不会像其他孩子那样能惊吓到你的孩子，那就该去看耳鼻喉科了。

since I was born the medical advancements are way beyond anything I ever thought they would be and can honestly say most hearing can be fixed one way or another nowadays. I was placed with what they call the cochlear implant (baha5) 5 years ago. This changed my life and opened the door for so much in life that I was missing from day 1 of being born. I have issues with hearing out of my right ear and still way into my late 30’s fight day to day with fluid, ear infection after ear infections leaving what little hearing I have left to me feeling like I am completely deaf.

自从我出生以来，医学的进步远远超出了我的想象，老实说，现在大多数听力都可以通过某种方式得到改善。5年前，我被植入了人工耳蜗(baha5)。这改变了我的生活，为我打开了一扇门，开启了很多我从出生的第一天起就错过的东西。我的右耳听力有问题，在我快30岁的时候，仍然每天与流体和耳部感染作斗争，一次又一次的耳部感染使我仅有的一点听力给我留下了完全失聪的感觉。
原创翻译：龙腾网 https://www.ltaaa.cn 转载请注明出处

I would not wait and talk to your doctor and get a referral if needed and get a jump start because there future is gonna depend on it.

如果需要人工耳蜗的话，我不会等着和你的医生谈话，并得到转诊通知。赶紧开始用吧，因为未来就靠它了。

Joshua Strigler
My wife and I started noticing that our daughter would constantly say “what” when we were talking with her. She had been diagnosed with Kartengener's Syndrome a year prior, but we were never told of this possible complication. Kartengener's is a rare disease that caused all of her organs to essentially form on the opposite side of her body. It also causes what is called “lazy” cilia. She had been unable to expel excess fluid from her ears and lungs since birth. She always had a problem with vomiting and coughing, but her pediatrician had said there wasn't much we could do. After a while, we took her to Phoenix Children's Hospital and they were amazing. We told them of her Kartengener's and they knew exactly what the problem was. They scheduled her for tubes to be put in her ears the next month. It was almost instantaneous that we had a brand new kid. She was finally able to hear! She is slightly behind in speech development because of the hearing loss, but is doing great. It was also super cute the first time we went to a baseball game and she put her left hand over her heart on the right side for the anthem. I call her my lil Dr. Suess character and tell her our hearts touch when we hug!

我妻子和我开始注意到，当我们和女儿交谈时，她会不停地说“什么”。 一年前，她被诊断出患有卡塔格内综合征，但我们从未被告知这种可能的并发症。卡塔格内综合征是一种罕见的疾病导致她的所有器官基本上都在身体的另一侧形成。它也会引起所谓的“惰性”纤毛。自出生以来，她一直无法从耳朵和肺部排出多余的液体。她总是有呕吐和咳嗽的问题，但她的儿科医生说我们无能为力。过了一段时间，我们带她去了凤凰儿童医院，他们非常棒。我们告知他们关于女儿的卡塔格内综合征的情况，他们也知道了问题出在哪里。他们安排她下个月接受耳部插管。就在一瞬间，我们有了一个新生的孩子。她终于能听见了! 由于听力损失，她的语言发展略落后，但状况很好。我们第一次去看棒球比赛的时候，她在唱国歌时把左手放在了右边的心脏上，非常可爱。我称她为我的小苏斯，并告诉她当我们拥抱时，我们的心会触动!

Tricia Vadnais
I had this concern with my oldest child and mentioned it to the pediatrician. He told me to do the ice cream test. I said, “the what?” He said to walk up behind my child and whisper as softly as possible, “Do you want some ice cream?” I did it and discovered my child’s hearing is fine.

我对我最大的孩子有这类担忧，并向儿科医生提了出来。他让我做冰淇淋测试。我说。“啥？” 他让我走到孩子身后，尽可能小声地说:“你想要一些冰淇淋吗?”我照做了，发现我孩子的听力没问题。
原创翻译：龙腾网 https://www.ltaaa.cn 转载请注明出处

Polly Draeger
We found out our youngest child was deaf when he ‘failed’ the newborn screening test for hearing loss. These are compulsory in our country at birth. He had further testing at 6 weeks of age, which confirmed a bilateral sensorineural severe hearing loss. He wears cochlear implants. All this is paid for by our medicare system.

我们发现我们最小的孩子失聪是他在新生儿听力损失筛查中“失败”时。这些检查在我们国家是强制性的。他在6周大时进行了进一步的检查，证实双侧感音神经性严重听力损失。他戴着人工耳蜗。所有这些都是由我们的医疗保险系统支付的。

Joan Vredik Broadley
When my cousin was a little boy he would have terrible temper tantrums and seem to be unable to express his feelings. He had such frustrations. My mother-in-law was visiting and recognized his rages from when her brother was a small boy. Her brother was diagnosed with only 20% hearing in one ear. She suggested my cousin have his hearing tested and, yes, he did have significant hearing loss.

当我的表弟还是一个小男孩的时候，他会发脾气并且似乎无法表达他的感情。他遇到了这样的挫折。我的岳母来看我，她想到了她哥哥还是个小男孩时就开始发脾气的样子。她的哥哥被诊断出一只耳朵听力只有20%。她建议我表弟去做听力测试，没错，他确实有严重的听力损失。

Sheryl McCoy
Take the child to an audiologist and the child will be tested properly.

带孩子去看听力学家，孩子将接受适当的测试。

Cameron Grover
when they cant hear anything

当他们什么都听不见的时候
原创翻译：龙腾网 https://www.ltaaa.cn 转载请注明出处

Michael Hewitt
Open a chip packet in another room of the house.

打开另一个房间的薯片包。

Tanya Ortego
Say somthing when the childs back is turned

等孩子转过身，说点什么

John Li
Sneak up on them and yell boo behind them. If they dont react then they are probably deaf.

悄悄靠近他们，在他们身后大喊。如果他们没有反应，那么他们可能是聋了。