Hearing Loss In High School

On December 2, 1999, I came into the world and appeared a normal baby. However, the doctor told my mom and dad the shocking news they never expected. The doctor told my parents that after the tests were completed that I had failed the hearing test. They referred my parents to see a specialist about why I failed the hearing test. My parents went to the specialist and were told that they need to wait until I was older to do some tests. After a while I was taken to the Riley Hospital to have more tests done on my ears. The doctors there were able to tell my parents that I had a moderate to severe Sensorineural hearing loss. It affects how the brain gets the messages from the cochlea. The doctors told my parents that I would probably have a hard …show more content…
Occasionally in class, I may have a hard time understanding someone, or have a hard time hearing in class. There are also times where homework or classwork is hard to understand. My brother doesn’t have a hearing loss, so if you compare us doing school work. My brother would understand his homework much better than me because my hearing loss affects my comprehension. Therefore, I have to work twice as hard than he does to understand the same material. However, I can read lips where he can not. My brother is also a social person, and can jump into any conversation without a problem. I have a hard time being a part of a conversation because I usually get lost in a conversation. I get lost in a conversation because usually there will be lots of background noise like a cafeteria where there is a lot of people talking about many different things at once. With all of the background noise, it is hard for me to understand, and hear what someone is saying plus understand what's going on. Frequently in a classroom when discussions are going on when a teacher calls on a student for them to answer a question I can hear the people near me if I can see them. If they are far away from me and I can’t see their face then I will have no clue what they said. If there is a quiet person speaking then it's really hard for me to hear because it sounds like they are mumbling or I won’t even hear …show more content…
There will be times where I’m with someone in the house, and that person will ask me if I hear a loud truck go by. I will sit there for about two or three minutes, and say, “ No, I don’t hear anything.”. Those people will be shocked by that because they really don’t know what I can, and cannot hear. I will be able to hear someone or something when it's near me because if it's not near me then I will have no clue. I even have trouble talking to people on the phone. Every now and then when the speaker is speaking loud, and clear enough I will hear, and understand what that person is saying. When they are speaking quietly, or just sound like they can’t speak clearly then to me it sounds like they are mumbling words. With people talking like that makes it hard for me to understand them, and know what they are trying to tell me. I also have to see the person’s face because it's easier for me to hear, or understand that person. When I don’t see their face I won’t be able to hear them very well or be able to understand them. Usually when there is background noise, and someone tries to talk to me from behind I either won’t hear them or not be able to hear what they are saying. Every so often when I watch a movie or listen to music I can have a hard understanding or hearing them. It only depends on the speaker when they are speaking loud, clear, and that it's turned up loud. When it doesn’t follow any of those