Hearing Test on 22 Month Old

hey there, my son's 28 months (i hate saying it that way but doing it for speech therapy purposes)...anyway, i called ECI for the same reasons as you. he didn't have near 50 words at 24 months (he does now - yay!) and his peers seemed way above him. i never thought there was a thing wrong w/his hearing but we're doing a hearing test on friday to rule it out i guess. the ECI lady said it'd be required before the ISD started providing services anyway. he had a speech eval last month & i was told he speaks at about 20 months & understands at about 22 months. so...i'm glad i called ECI when i did. i kinda wished i called sooner but i just kept holding out & holding out for him to just magically wake up and talk one day.
i unfortunately don't know much about the fluid build up & earache thing...but the speech therapist told me they can have ear infections and not know it, thereby fluid building up & us not knowing it. i wasn't necessarily against the hearing test, but i just never saw the reason for it b/c he doesn't exhibit any symptoms of hearing impaired, hearing loss, etc. but after she told me that i think she may know something i don't (duh, of course!). my son talks or tries to talk in the back of his throat, doesn't enunciate (sp) well. so his hearing or fluid may have something to do w/it...idk. but anyway, good luck to you & your baby girl. :)

Having the tubes placed in our daughters ears changed our lives.

My husband is the one with too much information about anesthesia, but after so many ear infections and our daughter always so miserable. I took took her for a final ear test and saw the huge loss of her hearing and decided I would no longer allow her to suffer.

We scheduled the procedure, my husband was given a Valium and our daughter did great.
My husband admitted that he should have allowed the procedure earlier once he saw the difference it made.

Always follow your mommy heart and brain.. no regrets.

ok my opinion is this the tubes wouldn't hurt anything. They did my oldest son wonders. now I have a 3 yr old that is hard of hearing. a hearing test with fluid will come out showing a hearing problem. now wether its temporary or permanant is a diffrent story. sounds to me like hers is temporary. she has the vocabualary at 2 mine has at 3. having fluid is like hearing underwater so that is why you can't understand her. Yes they do learn at diffrent paces but fluid can effect equalibruim. as well as speech and other stuff. Tubes did not help my youngest. he is getting a full blown hearing evaluation thursday and I am not expecting good news. Deafness runs in his family on his dads side. I would say what do you have to lose if the tubes don't help then you are looking at something else probably. In my opinion I have done the tubes as early as possible with my youngest trying to avoid speech and stuff. It didn't work but I attempted to give him every advantage possible but it didn't work out how I would have liked it too. I would have liked results like his brother got but it didn't happen. good luck

Three ear infections and tubes. I think not. My son had his first at three
weeks old. Landed him in the hospital because he had a fever and a fever
in a three week old warrants hospitalizationll. My ped poped in the room
the next day and said you are in for the ride of your life. (We had a great
fun relationship). When they get one that young, they will get them often.
He did get them every 3 weeks. At around 3 yo I noticed he was not hearing
well and we decided to do tubes. Helped a great deal. Today at 33yo he still gets one or two a year!!!!!
As far as her speech goes, she sounds like a normal 22 month old. I can't
imagine 3 ear infections having a detrimental effect. My ENT told me that
as soon as the weather got a bit warmer send him out without a hat, the
fresh air tends to dry out the fluid. Good luck.

I thought that they had to have at least 5 ear infections over a 12 month period to be considered for tubes? Sometimes kids don't get ear infections at all and still need tubes , my daughter has tubes and she never got ear infections , for her it was myself noticing when she was 4 that she was beyond loud when talking and answering Q's and also her speech was not clear (would say TB rather than TV , or DBD rather than DVD). Took her to ped and she failed a hearing test , went to ENT and she had a lot of fluid in her ears , so we had tubes put in.

My advice would be to hold off for now , spring is here so see how she does , if it continues or you notice her speech is not right as the months go on then get it looked into again.

Well, saying 50+ words at 22 months sounds pretty much on track. My kids are 5 and 2 years old (28 months) and both really took off with talking around 20-24 months. I don't always understand what my 28 month old is saying either. The one child I knew who got speech therapy was not talking at all at 24 months.

I would hold off a little on the tubes. Follow up but give until the weather is really warm to see if they clear on their own. My kids have had a few ear infections but were never recommended for tubes.

I can't believe a doctor would recommend tubes after a few months of ear infections. I would have guessed it was one infection that didn't get knocked out. Most kids I know who have gotten tubes have been repeatedly sick since infancy. You absolutely shoudl get a second and thiird opinion. I am not a doctor, but I think it is smart to be skeptical. Anesthsia is dangerous and not to be undertaken lightly. Your child may need tubes, but it sounds like a really quick decision to me.

Lots of 2 and even 3 year olds are hard to understand or don';t talk much. At my daughter's three year old check up, the doctor was looking for at least 50% understandability. I can't imagine that a recent infection would suddenly impede her speaking. You are very smart to have the hearing tested because she could have hearing damage, but I also think you woulld notice effects on her speech so quickly. So try not to worry about it.