Hi, @nadiail Welcome to Connect.
I know the heartbreak of finding out that your child has a hearing loss, but although it is part of who my daughter is, it has not impacted her at all in her education or in her career. I realized that my daughter was not hearing well when she was a toddler but back then (she's in her 30s now) I was told she was a little too young to diagnose correctly, that could only be done with babies and young children who have profound hearing losses. You say the loss is moderate. So, your child can hear you if you speak up, basically being "loud and clear"? I must have been doing that quite well because when she was finally diagnosed at age 4, she had speech and language testing with the expectation being that she would need some speech therapy but she turned out to be above age level!
I think the sooner you can get her/him fitted with hearing aids the better the outcome generally though. Obviously my daughter was hearing me but was probably missing a lot from other people. She was in nursery school when she was three and although I told her teacher that we suspected she had a hearing loss the teacher told me, well into the year, that my daughter did not pay attention!
As I mentioned above, she was finally diagnosed at age 4 and started wearing hearing aids then. It was interesting to see her hearing things she had never heard before, like the sound of the microwave oven. When she was young she accepted wearing hearing aids completely, to her I think they were basically the same as people wearing glasses. She even took one off in school to use for "show and tell"! My daughter was quite shy when she was a child though and she did become self-conscious in those tough pre-teen and teen years. She always did well though and has a very successful career now.
I hope you have an excellent audiologist who often does deal with pediatric patients. That will be your best resource. We did seek additional opinions but they were the same as the audiologist's opinion who first diagnosed her hearing loss. I think we just needed that for our own peace of mind, to know that we had done everything possible.
I will be interested in hearing what is suggested by the audiologist.
JK