People do not understand the effect and impact of hearing loss and noise pollution to our hearing. Meanwhile, noise pollution causes permanent hearing loss. Noise pollution comes from honking of cars, generators, people that work in factories, construction workers, civil electrical and mechanical engineers as well as the vulcaniser by the roadside that are not using hearing protection.
I feel the community of the deaf is being neglected and isolated by everybody. Once we hear someone is deaf, we automatically just ignore them and feel like they are less important than we are, whereas when we see someone that is blind, we are a bit more compassionate because we can see it and that is how I actually birthed Earcare Foundation.
There is a need for government to establish the concept of newborn-hearing screening programmes. This is a programme whereby every new born in Nigeria has to be tested for hearing, the way they test if a child is jaundiced and things like that.
You mentioned that there should be a difference between those that are deaf and not dumb and those who are deaf, can you talk more on this?
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