Ethan had his second scheduled hearing test to day at Children's. The results were very encouraging. Ethan, as of this point, has no fluid in his ears and demonstrated he is capable of hearing all the different speech sounds. The implication is that there is minimal to no risk of any speech development problems due to an inability to hear properly. Moreover, it appears that the ear tubes we thought were almost inevitable are, at least at this point, not needed.
By the nature of the test itself, they could not determine if one ear had any hearing loss or not. A more specific (and different type of) test would be needed to determine that. What this test *did* demonstrate is that Ethan has no hearing loss at all in at least one ear.
Yet more welcome and positive news!
- bob
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