00:02Seven-year-old Archer lives with a cochlear implant.
00:06The device helps him understand speech and detect sounds.
00:11He's also supported by a hearing and vision team.
00:14He's been doing it since he was two, since he lost his hearing,
00:17and the Shepherd Center has been with him right from that moment.
00:20The program and its success has attracted this Japanese parliamentary group
00:25to Marrickville Public School.
00:26This kind of education, this kind of whole process we would like to learn about.
00:34That process is a pathway carefully curated for children like Archer.
00:39You have to diagnose the hearing loss first
00:40and then make sure children have the appropriate access
00:43with hearing aids or cochlear implants
00:44and then the last and most important part of the pathway
00:47is making sure they get the support so that they can learn and achieve.
00:50Today's visit will give the delegation some Australian ideas
00:54that they can then take home to their prefecture and apply to their pilot program.
00:59The partnership is fully funded from the Japanese government
01:01because this type of support system doesn't exist in Japan.
01:05We learn a lot from your system inside of Japan,
01:10but visiting the different facilities are very important to see.
01:16The collaboration is set to run over the next four years.
01:19Hopefully this can get that ball rolling for them.
01:22Hopefully this can get that ball rolling for them.
01:22Yeah, I promise to hear that last day.
01:24Would you care for them if you have the best because your role is not
01:24a small number of people coming out?
01:24Everything does have to be made by getting a lot of people produced right
01:25Everyone looks centering in Japan.
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