my niece had hearing test | ADHD Information

my sister got a letter in the mail saying that her daughter ashley which is my niece has a hearing loss and in the right ear, they tested her hearing at school.
Could that be the reason why for her behavior problems and also could it mean something?
She was diagnosed last year with mild mental handicap so it makes me wonder how long that this hearing loss been there and if she been having trouble with learning in school like following directions and stuff. She is at grade level for reading and only is behind in math, she has trouble with math.
My sister thinks maybe ashley has build-up of ear wax. I don't know. Makes me wander what and she will be going to doctor on monday.Sure hearing loss could cause some problems- it's actually one of the first things we had tested in my son.  If she can't hear the directions very well then she would have trouble following them, and it's always worse in a noisy environment. I have partial hearing loss in one ear due to a large amount of ear infections as a child.

Absolutely. I would totally agree that it is part of what is going on with her. We had a hearing test before we went for the neuropsch. test for adhd to see if it was that he couldn't hear correctly.

we looked into hearing issues three years ago prior to recent evaluation. problem was they said auditory proccessing doen't complete mmature sometimes till age 10-12 so test wouldn't be accurate. at that  time IEP came to include accomodations that actually fit auditory proccessing and current ADHD  issues.