Chrisso is a qualified social worker and child carer. She is currently working as a Community Worker for deaf and hard-of-hearing people at the Ephpheta Centre. She also works with families tutoring them in Auslan and supporting their deaf journey.
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Chrisso is a qualified social worker and child carer. She is currently working as a Community Worker for deaf and hard-of-hearing people at the Ephpheta Centre. She also works with families tutoring them in Auslan and supporting their deaf journey.
For Deaf kids that have questions like, Can I go to uni? Can I be an academic? Can I be a writer? Can I influence positive change in my community? We bring you the story of Breda Carty.
For Deaf kids that have aspirations to teach and author, we bring you the story of Jessica White. Jessica is a writer and senior lecturer in creative writing at the University of South Australia in Adelaide.
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The HEARO human library is in the true sense of the word, a library of people with a deaf or hard of hearing identity. They come from all walks of life with one thing in common: They are the heroes of their own stories. Reading each one is like opening a good book to study, learn from, and be inspired by. Every story reveals how unique and special the deaf and hard of hearing identity is and more importantly, what it means to be human.
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I was diagnosed with a mild to moderate hearing loss at three years of age and given my first pair of hearing aids when I was 10, as my hearing declined. You can imagine how out of place I felt as a child sitting in an audiology clinic surrounded by images of elderly people. At the same time I was also referred to a special needs teacher. All it took was a couple of sessions for me to get the impression that I would never be as smart as my peers because I couldn’t hear everything. Meanwhile my parents were told I would ‘never be a party girl’, as though they were supposed to be comforted by that idea.