When it isn’t a quick fix

I took my daughter to get her ears checked at the audiologist recently. She has a long history of developmental delays globally, and her speech is many years behind where it should be. We’ve worked and worked through speech therapy and tutors and any intervention we can get our hands on for nearly three years almost. Though we’d been told by foster care workers she’d had a hearing exam before, we also have been told lots of things like that that have turned out to not be true. So wanted to look into this again just to make sure hearing wasn’t affecting her slow progress in speech and language development.

And honestly, this is terrible. But I found myself wishing there was something wrong with her ears.