00:25So Irene, he's a great little dude.
00:28He's a great little boy, he has a lot of disabilities, he has a lot of challenges in his life,
00:34he doesn't walk well, and he had a stroke when he was the baby, but working out how his brain
00:44works and his development, we're still learning about that.
00:48But before, when he was born, the professionals, you know, the advice they gave to the parents was, oh, it
01:00was not, you should learn Auslan, you know.
01:03So now he's got a bit of a language delay and things like that, so he's, yeah, five-year delay
01:10really, but the system really needs to review its advice and how it tells parents what they need to be
01:20doing for their children.
01:23And, you know, different disabilities require different things, and there's specialists, but deaf and deafblind is really, they need to
01:31learn and expand their knowledge on that and not be so focused on autism and oralism.
01:39But more so, yeah, like, spoken English is a language that's difficult for those kids to learn, whereas Auslan is
01:47very open and easy for them to learn.
01:50So, and yeah, when we teach Ari, we can see that he's trying to learn, he's trying to, he's struggling,
01:58that he's trying to figure out what we say.
02:00And so we try and remove the barriers and the things that make us look good, but, but really, Ari
02:06is, he's a bit of a comedian.
02:11He's a deafblind comedian.
02:12He makes us laugh all the time.
02:16He has a good sense of humor, he's very, very cheeky, and yeah, he's a, he's a really great little
02:22boy.
02:23Yeah, hi, Bri, yeah.
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