My son is 21 months and is not talking yet is this because he has a microtia?
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it might be a simple a problem as 'glue ear' and I know because that happened to my first child. He had a very limited vocabulary at 20 months old, but because I had no other children, my concerns made to health visitors and doctors were laughed at, I was told I was being an anxious first time mother and that because he had passed his 7 month hearing test there was nothing to worry over.
I couldn't get anyone to listen to me and it was obvious something was quite wrong. He could do jigsaw puzzles, he could build things with lego that children much older than him were incapable of doing, and he loved looking at pictures in books, yet seemed disinterested in the accompanying stories.
he went through reception year and all the teacher said was he 'lacked motor skills and basically wasn't her sort of person'.
It wasn't until his second year in primary school that the teacher took me aside and said she suspected he had a hearing problem. Because a teacher had detected it, the medical profession seemed more willing to listen and within three months he had been referred to a hospital to have gromits inserted.
The change in him was miraculous. His speech improved in leaps and bounds, he made friends easily, he enjoyed the new sounds he had only experienced as 'muffled' previously and he now excels in school in all the sciences.
It might be something completely different in your childs case, but it really is worth asking for a hearing test and if you are still concerned a referral to the ear, nose and throat department.
As you realize, children should be talking well before 21 months.
It would be really important to get proactive about this situation because there are developmental landmarks in a young child that are harder to correct as time goes by.
See if you can get a referral from your family doctor or pediatrician to someone who is a specialist in this area. Plus do a lot of research online to find out all you can. Keep your eyes open for alternative methods of treatment, too.
God bless and be well.
Kelley
what's microtia?
First, Im not a doctor. from what ive been reading online microtia is a malformed or non-existant ear canal and the speech delay depends on the extent of the deformity and how much hearing loss exists. if the deformity exists in only one ear then your son should develop normal speech. If I were you I would seek the advice of an ear doctor to find out if it is just the microtia. Best wishes.
That is most likely the cause, I think you should just speak to him as much as you can so he can hear and mimic the sound that he hears.
I'm guessing that he has a unilateral microtia so he can still hear sounds out of the other ear. His hearing is just impaired so he won't hear as much as a normal child but he still can hear.
Listening to sounds and copying them is how children learn language.
It really depends on the grade of microtia he has. If he has Grade III Microtia it is surgically curable after age three.
I think you should just down with your sons doctor because these are questions that you should ask him. Not random people on yahoo who really don't no that much. He can discuss your options.
My answer was only based on what you put down as the question and my research on it.
Hope I helped though, and good luck with everything
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