Patricia

TAMMY: Has she ever tried a hearing aid? Or has a hearing aid ever-

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PATRICIA: Inaudible

WANATJURA: Long time ago when she was younger

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WANATJURA: *Laughing* She’s talking about a long time ago they did give her hearing aids, like those different ones not today’s hearing aids, so yeah and then her grandfather took it off her and then throw it away and burned it *laughing*

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WANATJURA: Yeah so she did have one long time ago

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WANATJURA: Yeah so she wants a hearing aid, hearing aid

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W: She can hear a little bit

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TAMMY: So she can hear a little bit?

WANATJURA: Mmm

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WANATJURA: She’s talking about a story long time ago and I was in the back seat sleeping, and she used to drive a long way

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WANATJURA: She used to drive all night until sun came up

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WANATJURA: She knew and stuff. Knows how to drive

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WANATJURA: She’s talking about like a bus, she struggles with taking the bus. Like bush bus, she doesn’t have money for that

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WANATJURA: The only time she goes- The only time she goes to Alice is when there’s appointment from the doctors like from here, for an x-ray or something

TAMMY: Who takes her?

WANATJURA: Um she goes on the bush bus on her own and then sometimes they need someone to translate or something. But there’s people over there who knows her language, like sign language. That she knows, one fella, his uncle does sign language so he meets up with her over in Alice at the clinic, hospital and stuff. So yeah she does have someone to help her if I’m not around

TAMMY: So she, she has inaudible

W: Yeah

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*Everyone laughing*

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WANATJURA: And also she struggles with-

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WANATJURA: Like she also struggles with staying at other people’s places, like houses

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WANATJURA: Because she’s good when she’s all alone in the house so she doesn’t have a house at the moment, so…

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TAMMY: Has she ever had her own house? Is she capable of living on her own?

WANATJURA: Yes of course

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WANATJURA: Because at the moment she’s moving house to house a lot, because there’s trouble, there’s always argument and stuff. Arguing over something, little things, food maybe or money or power or something. So it’s hard for her yeah and that’s when she fires up and just runs amuck and wants to beat people. But yeah so that’s one of the ones that she struggles with as well maybe, is with a house

TAMMY: So just looking at other things that she would like to do in life, what are some things that would help her out? She’s mentioned a licence, a drivers licence. She finds it difficult to get a licence because of her deafness

WANATJURA: Yep

TAMMY: Um she’s talked about, what was the other one? It was just in my mind

WANATJURA: Um communication and then work, like a job or something

SHEREE: Transport? Is that what you said?

TAMMY: Transport

WANATJURA: There was transport as well

TAMMY: Housing and accommodation?

WANATJURA: Yep

SHEREE: Hearing aid

WANATJURA: Hearing aid, that’s the one

TAMMY: Hearing aid, that’s right, a hearing aid was the other one

WANATJURA: Mmm

PATRICIA: Yep *thumbs up* Inaudible

SHEREE: It would make a massive difference, wouldn’t it? If you had transport, home and hearing aid

PATRICIA: Yeah

SHEREE: It’d change your life

PATRICIA: Yeah