Does she appear to look at you when you speak to her okay? Is the school screening her routinely or is this for a suspected disability; heard from the teacher any thoughts? I would get her into an audiologist to determine more in depth what is going on with it...asap.

My dh has bad hearing. Too many days with a diesel in his hears. But it's worse with wax buildup. He actually passed a test after a good cleaning.

My dh has bad hearing. Too many days with a diesel in his hears. But it's worse with wax buildup. He actually passed a test after a good cleaning.

Proper tests need to be administered by an audiologist. Dad needs to take her to see a specialist asap. I wouldn't assume sgd is faking it. Few of my students are HI and they obviously aren't faking it. Tell dad to take it seriously.

Hey Cover, I have had hearing loss since I was a kid apparently. It was never diagnosed. I was always merely the "loud" child. In school, sometimes, I just felt as if I was missing something that everyone else "got." Not fitting in because I was stupid? Because I was a transfer student? Because I was weird? When I began sitting in the front row of high school Chemistry, for instance, my grades were great. I became a front row student instinctively. Huge auditorium classes in college were a nightmare and I never knew why.

Entering nursing school for the first time, I panicked since I had such difficulty "hearing" blood pressures. This was decades ago when it was merely stethoscope/cuff. How come everyone else could do this simple task so easily? I would fake it, watching needle ticks etc. Close enough to pass, but anxiety making. Cadavers, I could handle ... stomach feedings, but the most simple procedure required multiple times each day, I just could not do successfully. I dropped out and switched to business.

After my divorce, I went back to nursing to get my RN. Discovered that I have hearing loss in my right ear, right in the spectrum of a heartbeat. I purchased a hugely expensive amplified stethoscope, but I still don't trust my measurements. Years of thinking I was a failure or stupid or incompetent --- I had a significant hearing loss. In retrospect, my father had severe hearing loss due to big bore/small bore competitive rifle, Korea & Vietnam. I grew up in a house filled with lip-reading, turning toward the speaker behavior etc. I didn't realize that the accommodations we enacted for my father, benefitted me as well.

I "passed" my school hearing tests but struggled with hearing loss for years before I learned that years of thinking that I was stupid or inept or whatever, were really because of a physical hiccup.

I hope that DH hauls SD13 to an audiologist promptly. Good luck

My youngest is completely deaf on the left side due to cholesteatoma. It ate away the ossicles and there's nothing to attach prosthetics to. Unless you're told, you cannot tell that he has a problem. His good ear compensates for the loss in the bad.

Tell your DH to get an appointment for her. If we'd caught my son's disease sooner, we could have avoided the surgeries and complete loss.