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Speaker 1: Well, a real change of pace as we focus on

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Speaker 1: one element of your health that you may not pay

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Speaker 1: But it's a big one, especially for us here on radio,

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Speaker 1: there's no doubt about that. And joining it me now

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Speaker 1: on World Hearing Day is Territory Hearing audiologist Solomon Joseph,

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Speaker 1: Good morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Good morning Katy.

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Speaker 3: It is wonderful to be with you, Katy on this

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Speaker 3: World Hearing Day. Territorians loved to hear your perspective on

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Speaker 3: current affairs and you you stand tall as the fourth

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Speaker 3: pillar of democracy as the media personal to make those

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Speaker 3: people accountable. Oh thank you who make the decisions for

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Speaker 3: Territori and so that tax me as experience.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that is very true.

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Speaker 1: Oh thank you Solomon. You'd organ you'd had your own

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Speaker 1: intro there. I love that. Now we'll get you in

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Speaker 1: helping out reducing the show Crystal of Suliman. It is

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Speaker 1: such an important day, though, is not World Hearing Die.

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Speaker 1: I mean, like I said, the intro, it's one of

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Speaker 1: those things that you probably take for granted a little

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Speaker 3: Hear absolutely absolutely, it's not really for an adult for

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Speaker 3: children and his people, and we ignore sometime, okay, and

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Speaker 3: average individual Katie will take after the diagnosis of hearing

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Speaker 2: Really absolutely so like.

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Speaker 1: A gradual hearing loss or an immediate hearing loss.

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Speaker 3: No, it's the acceptance. They are not accepting that they

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Speaker 2: But as for as hearing eighties concerned.

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Speaker 3: People take a lot of time the acknowledgement, and generally

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Speaker 3: the human tendency is when we cannot hear well, blame

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Speaker 3: to our parents and grandparents. They generally tend to blame

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Speaker 3: the other person. And when we as audiologists when do

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Speaker 3: the hearing assessment and elderly people will have a high

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Speaker 3: they cannot hear the female sounds and the children's sound

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Speaker 3: because the sound has got a place in the audiogram

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Speaker 3: by females and children. The male sounds are predominantly low

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Speaker 1: That it's not true.

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Speaker 3: You're right, this is actually is a hearing loss. That

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Speaker 3: is why we after the hearing assessment, we do speech

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Speaker 2: A hearing law.

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Speaker 3: High frequency hearing loss fan when when someone say fan,

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Speaker 1: Yeah right, so different different words.

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Speaker 3: I'm missing that the haiyh frequency sounds and distortion happens.

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Speaker 2: Okay, thug become FuG Yeah so do sound yeah?

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Speaker 1: Right? So Solomon, when I mean when you look at

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Speaker 1: hearing loss like I know, you know, I know for

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Speaker 1: What's it like hearing wise? Do we get to a

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Speaker 3: Depending upon one type of industry, we are yeah, okay

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Speaker 3: Okay, fire arms and KK for this someone, and tanks.

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Speaker 3: According to National Acoustic Laboratories that is a research organization

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Speaker 1: What are some of the things that you they you say.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, ear infections, especially in the community. We have a

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Speaker 3: Really absolutely, the GP appointment. Sadly, sometimes they don't get

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, this is the thing, and I know you

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Speaker 1: it is World Hearing Day. I know that there are

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Speaker 1: Are there different things that we can do to sort

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, absolutely, because many even the differense establishment, they give

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Speaker 3: It is impossible, So they have to take the headset out. Yes,

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Speaker 3: the people who work in noisy workplaces should have your

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Speaker 1: Yeah right, So you really do need to make sure

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Speaker 1: that you are protecting your ears and protecting your hearing ultimately,

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Speaker 1: because you know, once.

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Speaker 2: It's gone, do wan't come back.

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Speaker 1: That's right, Like that's the worry, that's the real worry. Well, Solomon,

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Speaker 1: I always appreciate you having a chat with us. I

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Speaker 1: know you are so passionate about what you do, and

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Speaker 1: I think that that is absolutely wonderful to see. So

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining us in the studio

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Speaker 1: this morning, and no doubt we'll talk to you again soon.

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Speaker 3: Thank you Adam Skeddy for this wonderful opportunity.

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Speaker 2: Thank you