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Speaker 1: Sounds like we've got a big problem with hearing loss

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Speaker 1: in young people. Apparently, across the world, about one in

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Speaker 1: five young people are currently diagnosed with hearing issues. In

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Speaker 1: New Zealand, nearly a quarter of year nine students report

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Speaker 1: having tenatus or. Tonight's Natasha Galado is the CEO of

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Speaker 1: the National Foundation for Deaf and Hard Hearing and is

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Speaker 1: with us now, Hey, Natasha, oh hi, how are you

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Speaker 1: very well? Thank you? Can we blame the headphones, the

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Speaker 1: earphones for this?

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Speaker 2: It's certainly looking that way. Yes, When we look at

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Speaker 2: that one in five globally young people having hearing us

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Speaker 2: it's mainly due to preventive issues relating to headphone use.

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Speaker 2: So yes, it certainly looks that way.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I guess the problem is that the young

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Speaker 1: people are using these headphones and devices much more than

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Speaker 1: when I was a young person. So how do you

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Speaker 1: help them to keep the levels down?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Absolutely they are. I think the key thing is education.

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Speaker 2: We've been running a Mate Listening Safe education program in

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Speaker 2: secondary schools since twenty twenty and the aim of that

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Speaker 2: program is to provide information to the students and parents.

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Speaker 2: I'm still enjoying listening to your personal devices and using headphones,

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Speaker 2: But what's the safest way that you can do that

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Speaker 2: to protect your.

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Speaker 1: Hearing and young people make dumb decisions. So as a parent,

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Speaker 1: how do you know if it's too loud? Like, do

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Speaker 1: you do you need to stick your head close to

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Speaker 1: the headphone? Be like, if you can hear it yourself,

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Speaker 1: it's too loud.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, yes, that is one gauge that you can tell

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Speaker 2: that if you can hear it, even music or anything

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Speaker 2: coming through the headphones, it's definitely too loud.

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Speaker 1: I look forward to that battle. Does it always lead

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Speaker 1: to hearing loss if they've got tenatus?

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Speaker 2: Not always? No, It's really around whether that tinatus is

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Speaker 2: permanent or if it's something that is just temporary. Many

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Speaker 2: people go to a concert and walk out what's bringing

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Speaker 2: in the years, But that could be just something that

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Speaker 2: just lasts for a few days. It's mainly whether or

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Speaker 2: not that tinatus is on and really what are your

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Speaker 2: listening habits as they contributing to that tenatus and that

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Speaker 2: potential for it to become more permanent.

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Speaker 1: Natasha is good to talk to you. Thank you for that.

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Speaker 1: Natasha Galada, the chief executive of the National Foundation for

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Speaker 1: the Deaf.

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