Max
(Mutitjulu)
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Max is from Mutitjulu and is in a wheelchair and can’t use his legs, he also wears a hearing aid and only talks a little bit. Max would like an electric scooter to help him get around the community and a mechanical bed would also help him to get in and out of bed more easily.
Transcript
MAX: Max
Translator: Max
TAMMY: So your name is Max and you come from Mutijulu
MAX: Yeah
TAMMY: Max can you tell us about your disability?
Translator speaking language
MAX: *Nodding* Yeah
TAMMY: What’s your disability?
Translator speaking language
MAX: Mutijulu, Mutijulu
TAMMY: Yeah
Translator and Max speak language
TAMMY: Can’t walk?
Translator and Max speak language
MAX: Hearing aid
Translator: Hearing aids, can’t hear properly?
MAX: *Nodding* Inaudible
TAMMY: And talk properly?
MAX: *Shakes head*
Translator: A bit, little bit
Translator and Max speak language
TAMMY: Tell us what you struggle with in life. What sort of things do you really need help with?
Translator and Max speak language
Translator: Legs are not good, so-
TAMMY: Do you find it hard to do shopping? Do you find it hard to do cleaning in your house?
MAX: Yeah
TAMMY: Yeah? Would you like help to do those things?
MAX: *Nodding* Inaudible
Translator and Max speak language
Translator: Struggle with walking around, it’s hard
TAMMY: Do you like visiting your family?
MAX: *Shakes head*
Translator: *Laughs* No
Translator and Max speak language
TAMMY: But does he- Just get him to talk about what things are really hard for him to do. Like things that he’d like to do like he said he get um lazy and that one broken. Ya know, moving around the community and things like he was saying before
Translator and Max speak language
Translator: A scooter to drive around so it’s easy
TAMMY: A scooter would help you to do things aye?
MAX: Yeah, go everywhere
Translator: Go everywhere like drive around the community he said
TAMMY: Visit shop?
MAX: Go to the rec hall
Translator: Go to the rec hall
TAMMY: The rec hall, yeah
MAX: Go there
Translator: Go the aged care, yep
MAX: My family’s place
Translator: My family’s place as well
Translator speaking language
MAX: Yeah go football watch him
Translator: Go to the football oval and watch the young fellas
MAX: Yeah
TAMMY: Good. What other things do you need help with?
Translator speak language
MAX: Inaudible lift up beds
Translator: One of those lift up beds inaudible
MAX: Yeah inaudible
TAMMY: Yep
Translator: So you want something like that speaks language
MAX: Yeah. Plug in the power and inaudible watching tv yeah inaudible
Translator: Yeah so he can move around and watch the tv
TAMMY: Yep
Translator: So he can move the bed around, like the pillow
TAMMY: Yep
MAX: Yep *Thumbs up*
Translator: That’s a good one
TAMMY: And what about to like lift you, get out of wheelchair?
MAX: Yeah
Translator speaks language
MAX: *Nodding*