Broken FM's

RE-POST.

We had a great comment on here today, and I was just frankly curious to get some more opinions.

Had our PPT at the school system, and they decided against using our Phonak iSense model, because they fear him loosing it on the playground, or knocking it out. Our daycare teacher hasn't had the problem with it falling out, despite running around HARD in her play area, and outside play seems to be going ok with it too. I'm pleased with it....but again, I don't have a lot of experience with this. It was dead at least twice without anyone knowing (batteries wore out...MAN do those suckers go fast!!!)

The school wants to do a low grade hearing aid on the good ear, attach a FM box to the bottom of it, and then do a mold with a notch, so that the environmental noise can go into the ear as well. I'm curious to see how well it will work. But the hard part is, he isn't able to tell me if it's working or not. That's one of our IEP goals. Realistic for an almost 3 year old?? I'm not sure.

Anyone else want to weigh in on this?



Original Post:

We got a Phonak iSense FM system about 2 months ago, and it has been awesome. It's a tiny receiver that doesn't need to be attached to an aid like many traditional FM systems. In older kids and adults, it can just rest on top of the ear, and the small receiver sits right inside the canal. Since my son is so young, and can't keep something so fragile in place, his is held in place by a clear in the ear mold that has a hole for us to slide the receiver into, but it's got an adaptation.

With his unilateral loss, blocking all hearing isn't a good option, so they actually made a small notch in the mold for noise to get through. Since it's just an FM, there doesn't need to be a complete seal of the ear canal. This way, I can talk into the transmitter (we have the inspiro transmitter) and he can hear me OVER the other noise, but can still hear the background noise as needed. I'm not sure if I'm explaining it clearly enough, but my understanding is, this is a new thing and our audiologist at ASD has only given it out to 2 other kids.

I highly recommended it, it was exactly the system I thought we needed, and it was working perfectly for our family....until this week. It died. Completely. For no reason that I can fathom.

I've charged the batteries in the transmitter, changed the batteries 3 times in the receiver just in case, reprogrammed the receiver to the transmitter, checked different channels to see if that worked, and that was all I could think of to try.

Our audiologists are all on vacation for 2 weeks, so we can't do a thing until they get back. One of them was contacted by the secretary, and she called me from the beach to try to talk me through things to try (soooo nice!!!)), but her suggestions were things I had already done.



Does anyone have any experience with their FM systems just randomly dying? Any more suggestions for something I could try while I wait out the vacation time of the audiologists, and the inevitable time for sending back to Phonak?

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going into some stealth mode for quite some time now...

I've started a new job (not necessarily of my own accord. I was kind of told that I could transition from my current job, or I could have no job. So I chose transition.) and the days have really changed.

But it's a new adventure, so off I go on it!

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I'm probably not a good person, because this made me laugh

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I don't know if anyone else noticed this article:

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Look at the rest of this list....

Nanny, Pre-school teacher. The rules are the same. Do you want an overworked overtired person watching your kids in their formative years? No!!

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Hearing Imparied Passerby Helps Injured Man

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This is just a really cool story. What a nice young lady!! People complain all the time about "college kids" in this town, because they don't like them drinking and partying, and all the carrying on.

I work in Public Safety...trust me, I KNOW what our college kids are doing. I know I would hate it if I were one of the neighbors too. But some of them stand out as stellar examples of human beings. Perhaps people shouldn't be so quick to brush off college kids after all.

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