When describing your child's hearing loss to their school or childcare provider, having a copy of an audiogram such as this or the one found here (click link for another example) , may help them to visually see what your child can and cannot hear. A copy of their personal audiogram from the audiologist (if you can provide one) paired with one displaying where speech sounds fall like this chart, may help provide a better understanding of your child's hearing loss. Keep in mind, classrooms and daycares are much noisier than the sound proof booths that the audiologists use for testing so remind them that background noises can certainly lesson what they may see on paper as the amount of hearing your child has with his or her hearing device(s).
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