Hearing test
Anna had her hearing tested when she was one day old.
They mounted electrodes on her head and neck, put on some fancy headphones and then played noises and measured through the electrodes whether her brain registered them. She was asleep half the time, but it still worked fine (and her hearing was just fine, by the way).
I think it’s so much better to measure it electronically and at an early age. In Denmark, they seemingly still do it the old-fashioned way, and it’s just not nearly as precise.
For instance, what happened when my niece Ursula had her hearing test at eight months was this: The nurse stood behind her and made a noise to the left. Ursula turned her head and looked at her. She then made a similar noise to the right, but this time Ursula had figured out what was happening, so she didn’t bother doing looking, and the nurse therefore thought she was deaf in her right ear. It took weeks till she got a proper test and established that their was nothing wrong with her hearing in the first instance.
På Skejby Sygehus tester man også elektronisk på samme måde, som du beskriver med Anna, når børnene er et par dage gamle. Det troede jeg faktisk, man gjorde alle steder i DK. Jeg tror, Ursulas høretest er mere undtagelsen end reglen.
Godt nytår til jer alle
Trine
Sjovt, det er nok bare Rigshospitalet i København, der er bagud… Godt nytår også til jer tre!
Da Sebastian var lille og skulle havde den der høretest i York, var det også på den gammeldags’ facon.
Nåja..eller gammeldags og gammeldags
Jeg har faktisk aldrig set noget lignende.
Den blev udført af to damer, hvor den ene listede/sneg sig meget listigt, indianer-agtigt rundt om barnet og pludseligt gav lyde fra sig.
Den anden dame havde en glad, smittende, overkæk entuiasme ligesom ham karakteren fra “Little Britain”, der hele tiden højt siger “Yyyyeees!”
Jeg var ved at boble over af grin dengang,- og Sebastian kiggede på dem, som om de var åndssvage.
Det er jo næsten synd, at NHS er kommer så meget med teknologisk, at fantastiske damer som dem fra York bliver arbejdsløse 😉