How to Test Your Baby's Ears and Hearing A wealth of information about how to monitor the development of your child's hearing and how to treat childhood ear accidents makes this chapter important reading. The home hearing test explained here can be used to determine basic hearing ability of infants at different ages.
Older children require a slightly more sophisticated home hearing test than infants do.
Here's how to do it right. This section helps you determine which outer ear problems you can deal with at home and which should be left to your child's doctor. The signs of an ear infection are often varied and subtle. While fungal infections, bleeding from the ear, or infections due to pierced ears may require a consultation with the doctor, they may not. Here are tips than can help you determine whether to make the call.