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Speaker 1: We know that today is World Hearing Day. It is

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Speaker 1: a day for us to really focus on our hearing

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Speaker 1: and the ways in which we need to look after

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Speaker 1: our hearing and our ear is I think now joining

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Speaker 1: me in the studio. He's an audiologist. We've had on

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Speaker 1: the show a few times, the wonderful Salomon Joseph. Good

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Speaker 1: morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Good morning to you, Katy, and kat our producer for

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Speaker 2: giving me this wonderful opportunity.

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Speaker 1: It's lovely to have you on the show now. I

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Speaker 1: know you are so passionate about hearing, and you're so

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Speaker 1: passionate about people really, you know, looking after there he

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Speaker 1: is and having the ability to hear. What's World Hearing

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Speaker 1: Day all about this year?

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Speaker 2: This year the main theme is kat Is Katy from

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Speaker 2: Communities to classrooms, hearing care for all children. That is

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Speaker 2: the theme this year World Health Organization put forward and

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Speaker 2: the most important taking thing a notice to what they've

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Speaker 2: said is that the hearing laws is unaddressed. This not

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Speaker 2: only affects a child's ability to hear, but significantly impact speech, language,

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Speaker 2: cognitive and social development, commonly leading to poor educational outcome,

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Speaker 2: reduced employment prospects, and long term economic disadvantages.

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Speaker 1: It's one of those things I reckon you're hearing that

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Speaker 1: you don't realize how important it is until it maybe

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Speaker 1: starts to deteriorate or until it isn't as great, you know,

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Speaker 1: as it should be. And I think with our little ones,

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Speaker 1: a lot of us, you know, kids can have bit

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Speaker 1: leer infections, they can have various different things going on

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Speaker 1: with their ears, and sometimes when we start to think, oh,

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Speaker 1: are they just being a bit naughty or are they

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Speaker 1: not listening to me? But the fact is there's a

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Speaker 1: lot of different factors that can be at play.

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Speaker 2: Isn't they Absolutely we parents, sometimes we don't pay attention

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Speaker 2: to our children's concern. Mummy, I cannot hear, and Daddy,

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Speaker 2: I cannot hear here. And I personally as an audiologist,

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Speaker 2: I have seen after my diagnosis the child has got

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Speaker 2: a mild hearing loss for more rate hearing laws and

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Speaker 2: the regret of the parent. Why didn't I pay attention

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Speaker 2: to my child's concern? And we always take okay, children, okay,

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Speaker 2: they're just children, Okay, but they are raising serious concerns

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Speaker 2: in the classrooms. You can imagine even in the classroom,

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Speaker 2: even a mild hearing laws can significantly affect their ability

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Speaker 2: to understand the teacher. And as you correctly pointed out,

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Speaker 2: the milliar infection is the main problem, because that is

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Speaker 2: why the Well Health Organization highlights These are the milliar

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Speaker 2: infections which can be preventable and it can be diagnosed

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Speaker 2: early and then it can be treated correctly. But the

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Speaker 2: role of an audiologist is so significant and audiologists generally

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Speaker 2: doctors use autoscope. We also use autoscope to look at

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Speaker 2: the ear and the four small children many times there

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Speaker 2: how ear ranks in the year when they have ear

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Speaker 2: wags in the year, we don't have a clear view

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Speaker 2: of the tympanic membrane or ear drum, so it affects

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Speaker 2: the diagnosis part of a doctor. But ordiologist has what

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Speaker 2: a special machine called a tympanometer to find out how

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Speaker 2: well the middle part of the year functioning, even with

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Speaker 2: small amount of wags. So I encourage anyone who doubt

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Speaker 2: about a child's hearing please contact me. I am happy

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Speaker 2: to okay, do the middle ear function test O care

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Speaker 2: because from six months onwards, at any age that machine

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Speaker 2: is usable and all children almost ninety nine percent of

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Speaker 2: the children will have a newborn hearing screening when they

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Speaker 2: come out from the hospital, so the next problem would

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Speaker 1: Ear infection and that's when it mostly gets picked up.

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Speaker 1: I've probably said this to you before, Solomon. I know

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Speaker 1: my son used to get ear infections very often and

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Speaker 1: then I remember taking him to see a specialist. They

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Speaker 1: pretty like they'd said to me, oh, look, there is

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Speaker 1: you know, sign that there may be a bit of

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Speaker 1: hearing loss. Now, fortunately we got onto it very quickly

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Speaker 1: and we're able to sort things out and he's you know,

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Speaker 1: he's fine, he's he is a fine. But if you're

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Speaker 1: not getting onto it early, and you know, so often

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Speaker 1: for us as parents as well, we want to do

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Speaker 1: the right thing, but you can't tell what's going on

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Speaker 1: inside your children's he is.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely and the meeting time here in the government's system

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Speaker 2: is weeks and months, and that is also a bortlenack. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: and that is why the importance of private clinics. Okay,

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Speaker 2: even with a small amount of money, Okay, I can

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Speaker 2: help people in my mission is your passion is as

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Speaker 2: a senior journalist, Yeah, the welfare of all Territorians. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: But my mission is as an audiologist is ear health

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Speaker 2: and hearing health of Territorians.

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Speaker 1: I know it is, and you're so passionate about that,

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Speaker 1: and I love that. I love meeting people who love

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Speaker 1: what they do, and I know that you love what

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Speaker 1: you do well. I mean, wa'ts your message today for

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Speaker 1: all Territorians on World Hearing Day when it comes to

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Speaker 1: you know, to looking after ourselves now hearing.

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Speaker 2: The most important thing, Katie is don't expose yourself to

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Speaker 2: very loud noises. I see a lot of defense personnel.

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Speaker 2: They are bombarded with the firearms, explosive devices and fighter

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Speaker 2: jets and they all will have hearing laws and the tints,

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Speaker 2: the ringing sound of the constantinatus and avoid okay, be

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Speaker 2: sensibly okay when you listen music, be sensibly in a

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Speaker 2: moderate oli. And the other important thing is whenever you

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Speaker 2: have a ear infection or ear pain, don't take it

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Speaker 2: so lightly. See a specialist. And audiologists can help you

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Speaker 2: in many ways in diagnosing what is happening. And there

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Speaker 2: is a one condition in ideology that is called a

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Speaker 2: sudden sensory oral hearing laws that is a clinical emergency.

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Speaker 2: It can happen to any person tomorrow morning. I can

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Speaker 2: wake up with a hearing glass in one year or

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Speaker 2: both years and that Okay, the window of opportunity is

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Speaker 2: only just one week, and I need to have a

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Speaker 2: strong steroid at the time, otherwise that hearing laws will

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Speaker 2: become permanent hearing laws.

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Speaker 1: And Solomon, I'm just looking at some of these numbers.

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Speaker 1: There's a there's some research that's been released for World

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Speaker 1: Hearing Days. Seventeen percent of people have never had a

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Speaker 1: hearing test, only thirty five percent of tested in the

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Speaker 1: past year, Forty five percent say it's been over a year.

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Speaker 1: Fifty two percent do regularly listen to loud music when

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Speaker 1: they're younger. So, I mean, even when you look at

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Speaker 1: those numbers, what you're saying is you know is absolutely correct.

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Speaker 1: You do need to make sure that you're onto it,

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Speaker 1: and you're onto it early if you're having issues with

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Speaker 2: Absolutely And one classic example is the vision problem is

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Speaker 2: our own problem. Yeah, but hearing problem is not only

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Speaker 2: our problem, our partner's problem too. And that is a

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Speaker 2: saying in many hosthold of my husband has got a

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Speaker 2: selective hearing or my wife has got a selective hearing.

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Speaker 2: But actually when someone says that, I will tell them, Okay,

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Speaker 2: show me the audiograithma of your partner. Yeah, I will

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Speaker 2: tell you this is a selective hearing or hearing laws.

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Speaker 2: Many times when we get older sixties seventies, they will

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Speaker 2: have a high frequency hearing loss. Not selective hearing, No,

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Speaker 2: not at all, and I can prove it. And that

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Speaker 2: is why after the hearing assessment we do the speech

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Speaker 2: discrimination test and they all miss the f T P

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Speaker 2: all these different high frequency tones. When the when the

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Speaker 2: sound comes through the vocal code of Katie, it becomes

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Speaker 2: high frequency, and children also and when it comes to

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Speaker 2: an adult typical it will be low to mid frequency sound.

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Speaker 2: So unfortunately, this poor old man will be disadvantaged to

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Speaker 2: dragging the husband to an audiologist because communication is so

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Speaker 2: core of any relationship.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, and you know, your ear health, your your

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Speaker 1: hearing is so incredibly important. I would imagine that. You know,

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Speaker 1: quite often it's it's when it's you know, you don't

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Speaker 1: want to wait until it's too late before you go

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Speaker 1: and see somebody if you're having issues with your hearing.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, and unfortunately, an average individual will take around seven

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Speaker 2: to eightyas to do something about with their hearing laws. Wow,

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Speaker 2: yeah that much, Okay, the glasses. We need to read it.

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Speaker 2: So we will see an optometrist and we will they

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Speaker 2: will prescribe the correct glasses. But hearing we will procrast

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Speaker 2: in it and it will take too long. And the

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Speaker 2: problem is the research is that when we have hearing laws,

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Speaker 2: significant hearing laws, we will struggle to understand in group

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Speaker 2: situation and in social situation and in background noise y.

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Speaker 2: And when we cannot understand people and we will try

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Speaker 2: to avoid the group situation and if they will create depression,

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Speaker 2: anxiety and even Alzheimer's okay, can lead to that problem.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so it is absolutely fundamental that we do keep

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Speaker 1: on top of it. Well. Salomon, Joseph Audiologist. It is

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Speaker 1: always wonderful to hear from you, and always wonderful to

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Speaker 1: have you in the studio, especially for World Hearing Day.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for your time.

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Speaker 2: Thank you Vertemus, Katy and kat for this wonderful opportunity.

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Speaker 1: Great to catch up with you. Thanks Salomon,