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<li>[[Helping Children Who Are Deaf:Chapter 5: What can your child hear?|Chapter 5: What can your child hear?]]
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  <li>[[Helping Children Who Are Deaf:Understanding sound|Understanding sound]]</li>
  <li>[[Helping Children Who Are Deaf:There are many kinds of hearing loss|There are many kinds of hearing loss]]</li>
  <li>[[Helping Children Who Are Deaf:What sounds can your child hear?|What sounds can your child hear?]]</li>
  <li>[[Helping Children Who Are Deaf:How to check your child’s hearing|How to check your child’s hearing]]</li>
  <li>[[Helping Children Who Are Deaf:To get the best results|To get the best results]]</li>
  <li>[[Helping Children Who Are Deaf:Tests that can be done at a health center|Tests that can be done at a health center]]</li>
  <li>[[Helping Children Who Are Deaf:Tests that can be done at a health center#What to do with this information|What to do with this information]]</li>
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A clinic or health center may also be able to test your
child's hearing. This kind of testing can be useful if
you think your child has difficulty hearing but you
cannot tell what kinds of sounds he can hear, if any.

Unfortunately, a clinic that can test hearing may be
very far away or be very expensive. But professional
testing will be necessary if your child is going to use a hearing aid.

If you have already checked your child's hearing yourself in a
familiar place, he may feel less afraid when he is tested by a strange
person in a strange place. He may be more cooperative and he may
understand more about what he is supposed to do.

Information from the hearing test is used to set a hearing aid to&nbsp;
match the child's hearing. See more information about [[Helping_Children_Who_Are_Deaf:Appendix_A:_Hearing_Aids|hearing&nbsp;aids]].

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=What to do with this information=
If your child can hear some sounds, you can help her learn to use her
hearing better. See the next chapter on developing listening skills.
After working on your child's listening skills for about 6 months,
check her hearing again to see if you get the same results.


{{Previous and next sections|To get the best results|Chapter 6: Listening skills}}

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