Son's Learning Disability Case Study

Noemi and I met at the park to discuss her son’s learning disability. Andy is a 10-year-old boy that was diagnosed at the age of 6 of hearing loss in both ears the right one is worse then the left one. The hearing assist him in his hearing aide assist him in listening to what’s being said around him. His parents take him every 6 months for a follow up and make sure they are functioning properly. Before Andy’s diagnoses he was seen as behavior child he didn’t pay attention in class and got distracted easy. Andy is a Hispanic boy raised by both his parents in a middle social economical class household. Noemi shared that Andy was born premature and was hospitalized the first month of his life. Once she took him home he was reaching his
Noemi started paying attention to the way Andy responded and noticed his father and grandfather responded the same way so she thought he was picking up bad habits. She then told her husband and his father to respond in complete sentences to see if it would help Andy’s communications skills at school. Andy’s Father and grandfather stopped their behaviors and everyone noticed Andy continued to respond the same way. Noemi was concerned and took him to the doctors to get a hearing test done he passed. Noemi wasn’t content with the results and went to another doctors. Where she got the same response that he passed. Andy went on to kindergarten and still having a difficult time in his class not able to focus and pay attention. He was losing interest in class work, talking and viewed as a behavior student. Noemi just thought she had to work on disciplining her son better. This continued until first grade when Andy’s teacher suggested he could have a hearing problem because she noticed he tries to be attentive in class then gets distracted when she walks away from him. At this point Noemi decided to call CHOC Hospital (Children’s Hospital of Orange County) they told her she could see an audiologist to have a more accurate hearing test for Andy. That’s when they realized he had hearing loss in both ears. Noemi stated “I didn’t want