As I tapped my son, Santi, four, on the shoulder, he looked puzzled. ‘I’ve been calling you!’ I said to him.
Santi dashed to the dinner table beside his sister, Aisha, seven.
‘I think Santi’s having some trouble hearing,’ I told my husband, Cesar, 31.
At birth, Santi hadn’t passed his hearing test, but doctors thought he’d develop in time.
As a toddler he seemed absolutely fine.
Now, he’d started school, so I spoke to his teacher.
‘He struggles with instruction sometimes,’ she confirmed.
So I took him for a hearing test.
‘He’s profoundly deaf in his left ear, with moderate hearing in his right,’ the audiologist said. Fitted for hearing aids in each ear, Santi struggled to adjust.
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