and if we talk about our beloved country
while I’m speaking I’ve just spoken for
one minute not even one minute 54 kids
are gone wow this is amazing
today I am not only going to talk about
all the kids I am going to talk about
the hearing challenges that is getting
into children in our country talking
about hearing impairment the first word
hearing can anybody tell me when do we
when do we start heading yes thank you
we start heading when we are done
matters that means when we are born we
are already born with a heading of 4
months and that’s why the famous
mycological story of a Beeman you who
heard the chatter view retina in
mother’s womb and was able to conquer a
very big fat render we are we the only
privileged species on earth who got five
senses and out of these five senses
which is that one sense which make
another shaft which is that one set
sense which cannot close anytime we’re
not ready
this is such an important sense of our
body that the children who are born with
hearing loss and not only not caring
when they are born but if a child is
diagnosed with hearing impairment at the
age of one year he has or she has a
hearing loss of 16 months and in our
country every fifth child for amongst
thousand kids is born with hearing
related challenges and yelling
disability is the most common disability
which you cannot see just like that
unless you see somebody signing or if
you see somebody who’s not
communicate with and it’s sad isn’t it a
very big challenge people really
sympathize with blind people but Helen
Keller who had both blindness and
deafness one day cried and as she said
blindness only keeps me away from things
but hearing challenge keeps me away from
people and human beings are the social
people we need to live in a community we
need to express our views we need to
tell about our emotions he’s lucky I
didn’t impaired child he cannot speak
he cannot even tell his friend I love
you how about that
now you will be thinking why am i
speaking so much about hearing
impairment hearing silences my
profession I am a postgraduate from NIFT
Delhi and I was having a very good
cherishing business I was surprised and
my daughter
Ananya she was diagnosed with hearing
loss profound hearing loss at the age of
18 months and if you see the slides
before that 90 to 95 percent of children
born with hearing impairment I am born
to normal hearing parents and Here I am
as a parent I didn’t know I had never
seen any hearing-impaired person in my
life before seeing my first child it was
devastating shocking it was like a death
of my dreams because when you have your
first child you bill
nice lovely dream around there oh and
two things I do that and you plan your
journey around it but suddenly when you
land somewhere else you really don’t
know where she goes then became a
journey of mother looking for various
options so various testings were done
and finally they said there is the only
thing what you can do now is put on her
hearing aids putting on heading aids to
18 month old baby was itself a challenge
and he makes I explored various options
for children like these and I went and I
travelled across India somehow I didn’t
get satisfied by seeing what these kids
were doing so I went to a lady who was
running her NGO of such children and I
said can you show me her best outcome
please I really want to meet that person
who is doing the best now she said yes
come you should meet he is a computer
engineer is easy
– he is doing computer engineering in
his second year and you must me so there
is an annual event held in that school
and she said you come during that even
time you meet I met that person and I
personally maintained I spoke with him
and that day I was relieved
because 60% of it what he was saying I
was not able to understand that I
thought will my daughter speak language
will bring the people turn around and
market harmony with Vinci Vinci be able
to communicate can make more friends so
all these things came back again and
then I thought let me Google 15 years
back there was not much of data
available on websites and said as yet so
somebody told me about this place in us
by John Tracy clinic who offers free
services to such family on a distance
education program so I enjoyed myself I
did their online courses and then I was
invited there and they said you can come
and see what these things are doing so
the new technology called cochlear
implants were just being launched 15
years back in India and they were very
few in fact we the applications were not
there so cochlear implant if you if you
know I don’t know you might always have
seen hearing aid users but cochlear
implant is surgically inserted device
which has two parts one hooks up on the
year and the other is implanted inside
the inner ear of the child so it’s a
three to three-and-a-half hour surgery
and only have trained ENT surgeon can do
that so they were just three surgeons
all over India and it was a very big
decision for us
so I went there to this place I saw
couple of little kids there who but even
able to you know when you call them they
were able to turn as I was surprised I
said this is amazing this is an
interesting technology I would like to
introduce my daughter and Aniyah who men
speak with you and share our journey as
a student
I know my name is Nadia and today I’m
going to share my experience with you
both as I’m hearing impaired person and
as a student in a mainstream school so
you know there are millions of things to
do in life you know summers want summer
babies but what makes those moments
truly special is who you are going to
induce it now all of you over here are
different now on what level you are
different babies now I am hearing
impaired I am different and I the most
important part is that I have accepted
my difference now in today’s world there
are so many people that you see from
different cultures from different walks
of life
some people are disabled someone who
normal as for society’s norms so when
you meet a person with disabled you have
a feeling entitled set okay he or she is
different he or she does not look like
me or he or she does not behave like me
so there was the time when I was more
for being different
and today I’ve been given this
incredible opportunity to speak on such
I used to be more for wearing devices
and I could not speak Hindi so well but
most it for the most importantly I will
make fun of for being different
now clash over to a few hours later you
have seen me with this new technology
and able to speak confidently in front
of all of you things have changed a lot
because now people are beginning to
understand that disabled people are not
so different for example I love the same
things as most of you I love to watch
movies and up to be folks I love to hang
out with my friends too and this is what
most of you boo like so you slowly start
seeing that I am NOT different as any of
you in fact there are other people out
there who are disabled who have comments
then not different from you you stop
treating me like I’m different then you
slowly stop feeling bad to me
and that is when you see that you treat
me as one of your own people you treat
me as if I’m the same now you see this
here in impairment is a gift for me not
everybody has the power to empathize
with people to truly understand what is
happened I would like to ask all of your
questions
suppose you walked into the world and
their different faces in like a graduate
from school you graduate from college
you start a job track every point of
life you meet new people would you trust
them to would not agree would you put
your self into their hands your
so-called friends the answer is no you
can expect people to understand you as
soon as you meet them think of it for us
we don’t expect people to understand us
but yes we do expect them to support us
I mean sometimes even my friend own
friends don’t get me that is because
nobody can understand nobody can go into
your
thinking and understand why you are the
way you are so now this hearing
impairment has given me the power to
empathize with people with similar
problems and different problems so it is
my dream to go to United Nations and
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noting that whenever you see someone
disabled it is explained that that
person does not want you to feel bad for
them they do not want your sympathy they
only want your support
I resent it and try to understand that
that person is strong that person does
not need you to do things for them then
you’re like oh my god she or she has
this problem
I wonder how life is for him but believe
me I do not think about how life would
be without this hearing impairment I am
proud of this because this has become a
part of me
so imagine which people even have one
great apollomon I think of cancer some
people are blind but everything is
proportionate so if you see a blind
person or a person with cancer yes you
will be in back but you do not do things
out of sympathy for that person please
try and understand the person I support
that
he said that the only disability to make
enough to pay head Nicki sound ki duniya
mein yeah I said goodbye that my life
actually not personal whenever I tell
itself has given us the motivation or
civic matching that is cup of lentils
will require formal proper all three
verbal training a speech therapy room
here to be an idea and substituting this
pudding process me therapist concept
similar role here parent wind power 10
now when you start your journey
substance everybody nak of kabocha after
hearing device status is of the type
panel like all the time if possible this
step is very important because it helps
to stimulate the auditory brain of the
child we make it up above new buy
tickets and vodka due to a specialty or
of neighbor chicken hearing device lean
level pair or nurse take a cubicle it is
like a puzzle in a key in making fools
of us concerning the sound initially and
they come
chop chop chop don’t care to be a worker
then the next is kita kita I’m gonna be
incidental learning which money raised
in fact even took it how Authority so
that is one more amazing huh I cover my
head table talking with Paul Stine to
see by the sort of skill move deeper
stretch building it was this soon if you
suppose that the stress beyond me
my daughter is a master neoprene
fragmented Chewbacca because nothing
yeah hostage a pity muscles not taking
is critical for Mary lips asada
interesting life naturally so is getting
this gonna not be this awake of lip and
marketing of the paneling but counting
just evidence she had a key born to
three per year Emily Skinner action
words iconically ski photos teaching
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reduce I look at it because the child
cannot follow you no no no they funny
the instant is correct it is very
important to make all the activities
extremely fun language expansion ecto
books authority to keep books for me
correct there might be construction
Misaki you say focus for is it you could
make it a little more complicated for
him by saying you know I like to buy
coal mangoes and then I went to buy for
apples what happens when I put it
together
it was only by a view here in 30 pitch
okay ma ma ba ka ki realistic on hito
comparison energy her a full Cortina jaa
jada vocal Santana said it’s turkeys are
hopfully you heartily can do circus
heartily at Masekela cousins we can get
to go you
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