Payton ABR Test (Hearing Test)

After Payton had four hearing tests done through the hospital we were told by the audiologist that we needed to take her to get an ABR test done. After two and half hours of the test we were told that Payton has a mild to moderate hearing loss. When I first heard the news I started to cry; you always want your children to be perfect. After about a week I started to accept it. We went in again two weeks later for another ABR test to verify the results of the first test. It was that day when we ordered her hearing aids, purple ones! We want people to know :)

About two weeks later the hearing aids came in. The audiologist put the hearing aids on Payton; she didn't mind them at all. Scott whistled at her and she turned her head; that was a very happy moment for us. Payton can now hear normally.

Since then we have tried out ways to insure that they stay on, though there are times where she decides to pull them off and put them in her mouth. We have a representative from the Utah School for the Deaf and Blind who comes twice a month to visit with us and work on goals for Payton. She suggested this last week that we purchase these pilot caps that will prevent Payton from pulling them off and putting them in her mouth. They work wonders, but they are a little goofy; we call her our little Amelia Earhart.