This is something to bless you and your family. If you associate the hearing aids with a positive memory for him it will change everything around. One idea I have for you is to take him somewhere in nature in the morning to listen to the birds and identify them. If you pull up a video of your local native bird species’ calls and have him listen to it to train his ear for the big day. Then once you go in person with him he will form such a positive impression and learn sound pattern recognition at the same time. He just needs a good reason, guidance, and love to depend on his hearing and see the benefits of having hearing. At his young age he associates the hearing aids as negative because of how they feel/look on him. This is a moment in his life where your influence and guidance can mean the difference between him giving up/accepting his hearing being handicapped or him learning to live with the discomfort of the aids because the positives outweigh the negative. You’re a great father, show him how to triumph through adversity. You can do this.

When they just speak really REALLY slowly and overpronouncing instead of just saying it a bit louder. Or they just scream... yeah

@hedgehogshill3522 IKR!! The only thing worse is when they're like "Nevermind, nevermind" and I never get to find out what joke they were trying to tell me 😭😭😭

I’m so sorry you’re going through that. How long do you expect until you are unable to see anymore?

@Tazazak with contacts, I'm fully sighted. But I don't know how they work to help me, or how my eyes degrade. I'm 63 now, 40 years more of life, and I'd be pushing my luck for real even being alive. I am in God's hands, he helps me get through anything. 20 years ago, I had my surgeries, and with regular tri-focal glasses, I could see great! I cried the day I got glasses. After being mostly blind before and after surgery. I wasn't allowed even glasses until after I healed. It was very hard. But I endured it. Sometimes things happen in life that you don't expect. I am grateful I am not sick, only slow. I really should begin writing again. I started a fairy tale, but it needs to be put together and organized so it's enjoyable. Seeing is part of the deterrent. I am working, but to write, I need to focus on it hard. Literally schedule it.

hi, can i ask what movie?

I saw a similar one, a quiet place, and they use asl a lot because there are monsters with super hearing that will kíll anything they hear

Tinnitus varies. But this is very evocative thank you.

It really depends! Deafness is a spectrum and not all people are candidates for cochlear implants, much like not all people who need glasses are candidates for Lasik surgery. So the hearing aid might give them clarity for medium frequencies, but they could remain unable to perceive high frequencies.

​@@Jetiospaghettio I also have auditory processing issues. I'm from Brazil and I don't know how getting accommodations works in other countries, but here every semester my college professors get an email that specifies which students need accessibility accommodations and basically instructions on how to make stuff accessible for those students, so if they decide everyone has to watch a video or movie and it doesn't have captions they have to either find an equivalent one with captions (and they have to change it for everyone, not just the disabled students) or find a way to make it accessible somehow. Same with reading material, projects, tests, etc.