3 D/HH Children in Our Family
I am the mother of three (3) children who were all born D/HH (NewBorn testing not done in 1991-1996). Our family has struggled with the cost of hearing aids for 3 children. When each pair costs $4,000-$6,000 per pair and insurance does not pay for this cost. My children need their hearing aid and coclear implants to hear the world and learn in a Hearing World. It makes me mad when insurance companies classifiy hearing aids/coclear implants as cosmetic. I do not see the Hearing World learning sign language! My children are forced to learn to live in this Hearing World and the devices that would help them cost a lot for families. After my first child was diagnosised, the only way we could get help would have been to have been a single parent, no house, no job, and no ambition. Since this was not going to happen in our family, I was not going to divorce my husband, loose the house, and loose my job, Our Family is being finacially punished. Every time my children need a new set of hearing aids it requires a loan. Our family should not have to choose between food and hearing aids.