Test Results

OK, so I had visions that when Therapist Lady called with Ken's results, I would be prepared with a pen and pad to take notes. I knew there would be lots of detail to remember and that I would have to pay a price for a written report.

Instead, I had been cuddling with Lastborn. Lastborn is far better behaved when he has a bit of cuddle time and lately, we just haven't had time to do this. So instead, I had to listen with no pad and paper and Lastborn vying for my attention. He didn't like me talking over his TV show. The joys of parenthood.

So, from what I can remember, Ken tested as being overall average in all areas of hearing/listening. It was in the subtleties of testing that nuances were found that we can improve with the listening therapy. He had to listen for things among competing sounds of different kinds. He seemed to hear things more clearly (or be able to discern them) through his right ear than his left. His hearing, while average across all frequencies seemed to be weakest in the spoken language range. Still not very bad though. He seemed to be able to hear better through bone conduction than through air conduction. Again, neither were bad, it would just be preferable for him to hear through air conduction than though bone conduction. Interesting. He also has a less than average ability to differentiate pitch. This would explain the voice anomolies.

So the results are nothing we can wave in front of the school to demand classroom modifications, but they were something we can measure to see how he is progressing through the program. Therapist Lady feels that we should see improvements in the vocal quality and speech processing over the term of the program.