Hello dr. My son is 2.9 year old and till now he doesn't speak a word but does the babbling sounds like Mama baba etc. and he only listens to his parents only. He os not listening to his teachers. We have conducted the BERA test also but the reports were normal as he is not having any hearing problem. Please advise me what to do as he has been expelled from his Playschool and the school staff is saying that my son is not able to hear properly and i told them that we have done BERA test but the school authorities are saying that you have to conduct more tests and from a single test we cannot identify his problem. So can you please specify what to do?

Dear Dr. Aartiji, My younger son just 5 years 8 months age his behavior totally different in two different places in house very energetic, always playing with his brother and talkative with huge stupid language, but whenever he goes to school do not talk to any one even teachers but quickly any education task does with good hand writing and question answers other than other children. just tell me what to do with his behavior?

My grand son is 21 yr old reading in national law university. when he was 11 year old suddenly he suffer bilateral; hearing loss. In left year severe to profound and in right year severe. At that time he was given hypobaric therapy at Ahmedabad and hearing aid just after we notice his problem, Some how he was managing his life and study. By birth his testes (one) was inside her stomach. At the age of 11 years (3 months before he developed loss) he was operated but Doctor say it is non functional. On 29th April this year he suddenly stopped hearing from machines , and we tried many machine but no response Now he is prescribed 5 steroids' injection each with 5 days gap directly in ear and vitamin B16 . One tab Montelukast+ Allegra and nasal spray. He is also taking hyperbaric. therapy. He has thyroid value for T3,T4,THS is normal range but TOP is very large 1000. He also have unusual growth of bones. So far it appears that. from treatment there no apparent progress in right ear which was better earlier . He also suffer little cold like problem just before he lost hearing. His left ear is same as earlier giving some response. Please guide what remedy we should follow so that he regain his hearing. Rajendra Prasad Tripathi

Kind attention Rediff Gurus : My 2 year old son clearly speaks Mummy and Papa but struggles to talk/utter other things. We are also not able to understand what exactly he wants and then he starts crying badly. Does he need any medical attention. My elder son started talking when he was just 1.5 years old. Kindly suggest

hello Ma'am/Sir, we are based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. I have a 2 years 4 months old son who doesnt speak anything except mama, baba, dada, bhai, didi etc... I am seeing a speech and swallow speacialist in Riyadh for last 4 months but no improvements. the advised us to speak with him in only one language, so we speak only hindi. on last visit the dr. asked us to see a speech therapist but hte problem is there are no speech therapist of hindi language in Riyadh. his hearing test was done which was fine, the boy is active, healthy and takes instruction but just vant speak. please advise what shall I do.